[PATCH] Staging: comedi: fix information leak

From: Matteo Semenzato
Date: Mon Mar 09 2015 - 16:08:37 EST


From: Matteo Semenzato <mattew8898@xxxxxxxxx>

The comedi_cmd struct has an hole after chanlist_len that could contain uninitialized
memory, this struct is copied to userspace.

Signed-off-by: Matteo Semenato <mattew8898@xxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/staging/comedi/comedi_fops.c | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/comedi/comedi_fops.c b/drivers/staging/comedi/comedi_fops.c
index 727640e..1cdf0a2 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/comedi/comedi_fops.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/comedi/comedi_fops.c
@@ -1718,6 +1718,8 @@ static int do_cmdtest_ioctl(struct comedi_device *dev,
unsigned int __user *user_chanlist;
int ret;

+ memset(&cmd, 0, sizeof(cmd));
+
/* get the user's cmd and do some simple validation */
ret = __comedi_get_user_cmd(dev, arg, &cmd);
if (ret)
--
2.3.2

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