Messages in this thread | | | From | Juan Quintela <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] kvm: Initialize all struct members to avoid stack information leak | Date | Tue, 19 Jul 2011 16:12:58 +0200 |
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Marcus Meissner <meissner@novell.com> wrote: > Hi, > > Reported to us by Stephan Mueller of atsec. > > Several .pad struct members are not set to something, so they > will leak stack content back to user space. > > Ciao, Marcus > > Reported-by: Stephan Mueller <smueller@atsec.com> > Signed-off-by: Marcus Meissner <meissner@suse.de> > --- > arch/x86/kvm/x86.c | 1 + > 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c > index 77c9d86..621ffb6 100644 > --- a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c > +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c > @@ -3002,6 +3002,7 @@ long kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl(struct file *filp, > case KVM_GET_VCPU_EVENTS: { > struct kvm_vcpu_events events; > > + memset(&events, 0, sizeof(events)); > kvm_vcpu_ioctl_x86_get_vcpu_events(vcpu, &events); > > r = -EFAULT;
Looking at arch/x86/include/asm/kvm.h & arch/x86/kvm/x86.c I can't see what pad fields are not initialized. My reading is that everything is initialized in kvm_vcpu_ioctl_x86_get_vcpu_events(). What field are you refering to?
Later, Juan.
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