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[PATCH] net: fix potential infoleak in rds_inc_info_copy

Started byKangjie Lu <kangjielu@gmail.com>
First post2016-06-01 18:20 +0200
Last post2016-06-02 08:40 +0200
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  [PATCH] net: fix potential infoleak in rds_inc_info_copy Kangjie Lu <kangjielu@gmail.com> - 2016-06-01 18:20 +0200
    Re: [PATCH] net: fix potential infoleak in rds_inc_info_copy David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> - 2016-06-02 08:40 +0200

#1411380 — [PATCH] net: fix potential infoleak in rds_inc_info_copy

FromKangjie Lu <kangjielu@gmail.com>
Date2016-06-01 18:20 +0200
Subject[PATCH] net: fix potential infoleak in rds_inc_info_copy
Message-ID<rFh2a-2cp-35@gated-at.bofh.it>
The last field "flags" of object "minfo" is not initialized.
Copying this object out may leak kernel stack data.
Assign 0 to it to avoid leak.

Signed-off-by: Kangjie Lu <kjlu@gatech.edu>
---
 net/rds/recv.c | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/net/rds/recv.c b/net/rds/recv.c
index c0be1ec..8413f6c 100644
--- a/net/rds/recv.c
+++ b/net/rds/recv.c
@@ -561,5 +561,7 @@ void rds_inc_info_copy(struct rds_incoming *inc,
 		minfo.fport = inc->i_hdr.h_dport;
 	}
 
+	minfo.flags = 0;
+
 	rds_info_copy(iter, &minfo, sizeof(minfo));
 }
-- 
2.7.4

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#1411900

FromDavid Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Date2016-06-02 08:40 +0200
Message-ID<rFusq-2oO-47@gated-at.bofh.it>
In reply to#1411380
From: Kangjie Lu <kangjielu@gmail.com>
Date: Wed,  1 Jun 2016 12:11:16 -0400

> The last field "flags" of object "minfo" is not initialized.
> Copying this object out may leak kernel stack data.
> Assign 0 to it to avoid leak.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Kangjie Lu <kjlu@gatech.edu>

The correct subsystem prefix is "rds: ".  Please resubmit this patch
with your Subject corrected thusly.

Thanks.

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