From patchwork Fri Jun 28 18:50:29 2013 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: Kamal Mostafa X-Patchwork-Id: 255543 Return-Path: X-Original-To: incoming@patchwork.ozlabs.org Delivered-To: patchwork-incoming@bilbo.ozlabs.org Received: from huckleberry.canonical.com (huckleberry.canonical.com [91.189.94.19]) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 469A52C0096 for ; Sat, 29 Jun 2013 04:53:38 +1000 (EST) Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=huckleberry.canonical.com) by huckleberry.canonical.com with esmtp (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1UsdnY-00045E-CN; Fri, 28 Jun 2013 18:53:32 +0000 Received: from youngberry.canonical.com ([91.189.89.112]) by huckleberry.canonical.com with esmtp (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1UsdmV-0003TB-L3 for kernel-team@lists.ubuntu.com; Fri, 28 Jun 2013 18:52:27 +0000 Received: from c-67-160-231-42.hsd1.ca.comcast.net ([67.160.231.42] helo=fourier) by youngberry.canonical.com with esmtpsa (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UsdmT-0007XH-AB; Fri, 28 Jun 2013 18:52:25 +0000 Received: from kamal by fourier with local (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1UsdmQ-0006Sn-Sb; Fri, 28 Jun 2013 11:52:22 -0700 From: Kamal Mostafa To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org, kernel-team@lists.ubuntu.com Subject: [PATCH 007/105] netrom: fix invalid use of sizeof in nr_recvmsg() Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2013 11:50:29 -0700 Message-Id: <1372445527-24414-8-git-send-email-kamal@canonical.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.8.1.2 In-Reply-To: <1372445527-24414-1-git-send-email-kamal@canonical.com> References: <1372445527-24414-1-git-send-email-kamal@canonical.com> X-Extended-Stable: 3.8 Cc: Kamal Mostafa , Wei Yongjun , "David S. Miller" X-BeenThere: kernel-team@lists.ubuntu.com X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Kernel team discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , MIME-Version: 1.0 Errors-To: kernel-team-bounces@lists.ubuntu.com Sender: kernel-team-bounces@lists.ubuntu.com 3.8.13.4 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Wei Yongjun commit c802d759623acbd6e1ee9fbdabae89159a513913 upstream. sizeof() when applied to a pointer typed expression gives the size of the pointer, not that of the pointed data. Introduced by commit 3ce5ef(netrom: fix info leak via msg_name in nr_recvmsg) Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun Signed-off-by: David S. Miller Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa --- net/netrom/af_netrom.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/net/netrom/af_netrom.c b/net/netrom/af_netrom.c index 14c106b..f334fbd 100644 --- a/net/netrom/af_netrom.c +++ b/net/netrom/af_netrom.c @@ -1177,7 +1177,7 @@ static int nr_recvmsg(struct kiocb *iocb, struct socket *sock, } if (sax != NULL) { - memset(sax, 0, sizeof(sax)); + memset(sax, 0, sizeof(*sax)); sax->sax25_family = AF_NETROM; skb_copy_from_linear_data_offset(skb, 7, sax->sax25_call.ax25_call, AX25_ADDR_LEN);