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Subject[PATCH] ipc: explicitly clear stack memory for shminfo
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This fixes a kernel stack memory contents leak by explicitly clearing
the shminfo structure on the kernel stack before it is populated and
copied back to userspace.

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <kees.cook@canonical.com>
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
---
ipc/shm.c | 1 +
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/ipc/shm.c b/ipc/shm.c
index 7d3bb22..1d3d41f 100644
--- a/ipc/shm.c
+++ b/ipc/shm.c
@@ -531,6 +531,7 @@ static inline unsigned long copy_shminfo_to_user(void __user *buf, struct shminf
{
struct shminfo out;

+ memset(&out, 0, sizeof(out));
if(in->shmmax > INT_MAX)
out.shmmax = INT_MAX;
else
--
1.7.2.3


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