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| author | Dan Rosenberg <drosenberg@vsecurity.com> | 2010-10-27 15:34:17 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2010-10-27 18:03:13 -0700 |
| commit | 03145beb455cf5c20a761e8451e30b8a74ba58d9 (patch) | |
| tree | a27b2221818b89039fc948d19780d52bb5c70789 /ipc/compat.c | |
| parent | b795218075a1e1183169abb66a90dcdcf30367f9 (diff) | |
| download | lwn-03145beb455cf5c20a761e8451e30b8a74ba58d9.tar.gz lwn-03145beb455cf5c20a761e8451e30b8a74ba58d9.zip | |
ipc: initialize structure memory to zero for compat functions
This takes care of leaking uninitialized kernel stack memory to
userspace from non-zeroed fields in structs in compat ipc functions.
Signed-off-by: Dan Rosenberg <drosenberg@vsecurity.com>
Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'ipc/compat.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | ipc/compat.c | 6 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/ipc/compat.c b/ipc/compat.c index 9dc2c7d3c9e6..845a28738d3a 100644 --- a/ipc/compat.c +++ b/ipc/compat.c @@ -241,6 +241,8 @@ long compat_sys_semctl(int first, int second, int third, void __user *uptr) struct semid64_ds __user *up64; int version = compat_ipc_parse_version(&third); + memset(&s64, 0, sizeof(s64)); + if (!uptr) return -EINVAL; if (get_user(pad, (u32 __user *) uptr)) @@ -421,6 +423,8 @@ long compat_sys_msgctl(int first, int second, void __user *uptr) int version = compat_ipc_parse_version(&second); void __user *p; + memset(&m64, 0, sizeof(m64)); + switch (second & (~IPC_64)) { case IPC_INFO: case IPC_RMID: @@ -594,6 +598,8 @@ long compat_sys_shmctl(int first, int second, void __user *uptr) int err, err2; int version = compat_ipc_parse_version(&second); + memset(&s64, 0, sizeof(s64)); + switch (second & (~IPC_64)) { case IPC_RMID: case SHM_LOCK: |