]> git.kernelconcepts.de Git - karo-tx-linux.git/commit
ipc: initialize structure memory to zero for compat functions
authorDan Rosenberg <drosenberg@vsecurity.com>
Wed, 27 Oct 2010 22:34:17 +0000 (15:34 -0700)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Thu, 9 Dec 2010 21:26:43 +0000 (13:26 -0800)
commit6606de00cc2053b821d7db0ab22aaa8af2ea6143
tree11f6d781c790ea0e86577a0b4166e2b69d0c65f9
parent1c10b597710cbd35696f3145321dfb8cd92069ad
ipc: initialize structure memory to zero for compat functions

commit 03145beb455cf5c20a761e8451e30b8a74ba58d9 upstream.

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>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
ipc/compat.c
ipc/compat_mq.c