[patch -next] wan/fsl_ucc_hdlc: info leak in uhdlc_ioctl()

Dan Carpenter dan.carpenter at oracle.com
Thu Jul 14 20:34:16 AEST 2016


There is a 2 byte struct whole after line.loopback so we need to clear
that out to avoid disclosing stack information.

Fixes: c19b6d246a35 ('drivers/net: support hdlc function for QE-UCC')
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter at oracle.com>

diff --git a/drivers/net/wan/fsl_ucc_hdlc.c b/drivers/net/wan/fsl_ucc_hdlc.c
index 19174ac..7608561 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wan/fsl_ucc_hdlc.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wan/fsl_ucc_hdlc.c
@@ -635,6 +635,7 @@ static int uhdlc_ioctl(struct net_device *dev, struct ifreq *ifr, int cmd)
 			ifr->ifr_settings.size = size; /* data size wanted */
 			return -ENOBUFS;
 		}
+		memset(&line, 0, sizeof(line));
 		line.clock_type = priv->clocking;
 		line.clock_rate = 0;
 		line.loopback = 0;


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