[PATCH] irda: do not leak initialized list.dev to userspace

From: Colin King
Date: Thu Aug 17 2017 - 18:15:06 EST


From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

list.dev has not been initialized and so the copy_to_user is copying
data from the stack back to user space which is a potential
information leak. Fix this ensuring all of list is initialized to
zero.

Detected by CoverityScan, CID#1357894 ("Uninitialized scalar variable")

Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
net/irda/af_irda.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/irda/af_irda.c b/net/irda/af_irda.c
index 2e6990f8b80b..23fa7c8b09a5 100644
--- a/net/irda/af_irda.c
+++ b/net/irda/af_irda.c
@@ -2213,7 +2213,7 @@ static int irda_getsockopt(struct socket *sock, int level, int optname,
{
struct sock *sk = sock->sk;
struct irda_sock *self = irda_sk(sk);
- struct irda_device_list list;
+ struct irda_device_list list = { 0 };
struct irda_device_info *discoveries;
struct irda_ias_set * ias_opt; /* IAS get/query params */
struct ias_object * ias_obj; /* Object in IAS */
--
2.11.0