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Subject[PATCH] RDMA/nes: do not leak uninitialized resp.reserved to userspace
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From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>

resp.reserved has not been initialized and so the copy_to_user (via
ib_copy_to_udata) is copying uninitialized data from the stack back
to user space which is a potential information leak. Fix this by
setting resp.reserved to zero.

Fixes: 3c2d774cad5b ("RDMA/nes: Add a driver for NetEffect RNICs")
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> [2.6.24+]
Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>
---
drivers/infiniband/hw/nes/nes_verbs.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/hw/nes/nes_verbs.c b/drivers/infiniband/hw/nes/nes_verbs.c
index f0dc5f4aa177..052c3822dfed 100644
--- a/drivers/infiniband/hw/nes/nes_verbs.c
+++ b/drivers/infiniband/hw/nes/nes_verbs.c
@@ -1666,6 +1666,7 @@ static struct ib_cq *nes_create_cq(struct ib_device *ibdev,
resp.cq_id = nescq->hw_cq.cq_number;
resp.cq_size = nescq->hw_cq.cq_size;
resp.mmap_db_index = 0;
+ resp.reserved = 0;
if (ib_copy_to_udata(udata, &resp, sizeof resp - sizeof resp.reserved)) {
nes_free_resource(nesadapter, nesadapter->allocated_cqs, cq_num);
kfree(nescq);
--
2.14.1
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