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SubjectRe: [PATCH] irda: do not leak initialized list.dev to userspace
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From: Colin King <colin.king@canonical.com>
Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2017 23:14:58 +0100

> From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>
>
> 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>

Applied and queued up for -stable, thanks.

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