irda: do not leak initialized list.dev to userspace
authorColin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>
Thu, 17 Aug 2017 22:14:58 +0000 (23:14 +0100)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Wed, 30 Aug 2017 08:19:21 +0000 (10:19 +0200)
[ Upstream commit b024d949a3c24255a7ef1a470420eb478949aa4c ]

list.dev has not been initialized and so the copy_to_user is copying
data from the stack back to user space which is a potential
information leak. Fix this ensuring all of list is initialized to
zero.

Detected by CoverityScan, CID#1357894 ("Uninitialized scalar variable")

Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
net/irda/af_irda.c

index 8d2f7c9b491da5b7e7b13f90f2aa9c5d88f84faf..4a116d766c159f809d9e885dfea5b71bdc3d5dcb 100644 (file)
@@ -2227,7 +2227,7 @@ static int irda_getsockopt(struct socket *sock, int level, int optname,
 {
        struct sock *sk = sock->sk;
        struct irda_sock *self = irda_sk(sk);
-       struct irda_device_list list;
+       struct irda_device_list list = { 0 };
        struct irda_device_info *discoveries;
        struct irda_ias_set *   ias_opt;        /* IAS get/query params */
        struct ias_object *     ias_obj;        /* Object in IAS */