Re: [PATCH] m68k: q40: Fix info-leak in rtc_ioctl

From: Geert Uytterhoeven
Date: Fri Sep 27 2019 - 08:43:32 EST


Hi Fuqian,

On Fri, Sep 27, 2019 at 2:15 PM Fuqian Huang <huangfq.daxian@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> When the option is RTC_PLL_GET, pll will be copied to userland
> via copy_to_user. pll is initialized using mach_get_rtc_pll indirect
> call and mach_get_rtc_pll is only assigned with function
> q40_get_rtc_pll in arch/m68k/q40/config.c.
> In function q40_get_rtc_pll, the field pll_ctrl is not initialized.
> This will leak uninitialized stack content to userland.
> Fix this by zeroing the uninitialized field.
>
> Signed-off-by: Fuqian Huang <huangfq.daxian@xxxxxxxxx>

Thanks for your patch!

> --- a/arch/m68k/q40/config.c
> +++ b/arch/m68k/q40/config.c
> @@ -264,6 +264,7 @@ static int q40_get_rtc_pll(struct rtc_pll_info *pll)
> {
> int tmp = Q40_RTC_CTRL;
>
> + pll->pll_ctrl = 0;
> pll->pll_value = tmp & Q40_RTC_PLL_MASK;
> if (tmp & Q40_RTC_PLL_SIGN)
> pll->pll_value = -pll->pll_value;

Nice catch!

Reviewed-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
i.e. will queue for v5.5.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

Geert

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