[PATCH 4.4 12/53] irda: do not leak initialized list.dev to userspace

From	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	[PATCH 4.4 12/53] irda: do not leak initialized list.dev to userspace
Date	2017-08-28 10:20 +0200
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4.4-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>


[ Upstream commit b024d949a3c24255a7ef1a470420eb478949aa4c ]

list.dev has not been initialized and so the copy_to_user is copying
data from the stack back to user space which is a potential
information leak. Fix this ensuring all of list is initialized to
zero.

Detected by CoverityScan, CID#1357894 ("Uninitialized scalar variable")

Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 net/irda/af_irda.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/net/irda/af_irda.c
+++ b/net/irda/af_irda.c
@@ -2227,7 +2227,7 @@ static int irda_getsockopt(struct socket
 {
 	struct sock *sk = sock->sk;
 	struct irda_sock *self = irda_sk(sk);
-	struct irda_device_list list;
+	struct irda_device_list list = { 0 };
 	struct irda_device_info *discoveries;
 	struct irda_ias_set *	ias_opt;	/* IAS get/query params */
 	struct ias_object *	ias_obj;	/* Object in IAS */

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