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DECnet: don't leak uninitialized stack byte

Message ID 1290546133.2276.10.camel@dan
State Accepted, archived
Delegated to: David Miller
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Dan Rosenberg Nov. 23, 2010, 9:02 p.m. UTC
A single uninitialized padding byte is leaked to userspace.

Signed-off-by: Dan Rosenberg <drosenberg@vsecurity.com>
CC: stable <stable@kernel.org>
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 net/decnet/af_decnet.c |    2 ++
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)



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David Miller Nov. 28, 2010, 7:32 p.m. UTC | #1
From: Dan Rosenberg <drosenberg@vsecurity.com>
Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2010 16:02:13 -0500

> A single uninitialized padding byte is leaked to userspace.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dan Rosenberg <drosenberg@vsecurity.com>

Applied, thanks Dan.
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Patch

diff --git a/net/decnet/af_decnet.c b/net/decnet/af_decnet.c
index d6b93d1..cf38f52 100644
--- a/net/decnet/af_decnet.c
+++ b/net/decnet/af_decnet.c
@@ -1556,6 +1556,8 @@  static int __dn_getsockopt(struct socket *sock, int level,int optname, char __us
 			if (r_len > sizeof(struct linkinfo_dn))
 				r_len = sizeof(struct linkinfo_dn);
 
+			memset(&link, 0, sizeof(link));
+
 			switch(sock->state) {
 				case SS_CONNECTING:
 					link.idn_linkstate = LL_CONNECTING;