Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | From | Greg Kroah-Hartman <> | Subject | [PATCH 3.10 08/17] ethtool: Use kcalloc instead of kmalloc for ethtool_get_strings | Date | Fri, 23 Oct 2015 10:44:53 -0700 |
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3.10-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
[ Upstream commit 077cb37fcf6f00a45f375161200b5ee0cd4e937b ]
It seems that kernel memory can leak into userspace by a kmalloc, ethtool_get_strings, then copy_to_user sequence.
Avoid this by using kcalloc to zero fill the copied buffer.
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Acked-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> --- net/core/ethtool.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/net/core/ethtool.c +++ b/net/core/ethtool.c @@ -1066,7 +1066,7 @@ static int ethtool_get_strings(struct ne gstrings.len = ret; - data = kmalloc(gstrings.len * ETH_GSTRING_LEN, GFP_USER); + data = kcalloc(gstrings.len, ETH_GSTRING_LEN, GFP_USER); if (!data) return -ENOMEM;
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