Re: [patch] agp: potential info leak in compat_agpioc_info_wrap()

[Eric Dumazet]

Le vendredi 23 septembre 2011 Ã 09:19 +0300, Dan Carpenter a Ãcrit :
> Smatch has a new check for Rosenberg type information leaks where
> structs are copied to the user with uninitialized stack data in them.
> 

Hmm, automatic tools should not send patches without human check.

> The agp_info32 struct has a 4 byte hole in it so we need to clear
> that before copying it to userspace.
> 
> struct agp_info32 {
>         struct agp_version         version;              /*     0     0 */
> 
>         /* XXX 4 bytes hole, try to pack */
> 

This makes no sense :

Why should we have a 32bit hole before an u32 field ?

Which arch mandates this ?

>         u32                        bridge_id;            /*     4     4 */
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/char/agp/compat_ioctl.c b/drivers/char/agp/compat_ioctl.c
> index a48e05b..0509497 100644
> --- a/drivers/char/agp/compat_ioctl.c
> +++ b/drivers/char/agp/compat_ioctl.c
> @@ -42,6 +42,8 @@ static int compat_agpioc_info_wrap(struct agp_file_private *priv, void __user *a
>  
>  	agp_copy_info(agp_bridge, &kerninfo);
>  
> +	memset(&userinfo, 0, sizeof(userinfo));
> +
>  	userinfo.version.major = kerninfo.version.major;
>  	userinfo.version.minor = kerninfo.version.minor;
>  	userinfo.bridge_id = kerninfo.device->vendor |


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