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authorJoe Perches <joe@perches.com>2015-10-14 01:09:40 -0700
committerWilly Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>2015-12-06 00:49:16 +0100
commit62611261b1f4e93561adcedc919473481cebc2f4 (patch)
treeed2af1f9c7f3e41e170fd84cb99417bd31b58b65
parent53bf8cef1e93ab5b356bb3122d2312fdfc74d979 (diff)
ethtool: Use kcalloc instead of kmalloc for ethtool_get_strings
[ Upstream commit 077cb37fcf6f00a45f375161200b5ee0cd4e937b ] It seems that kernel memory can leak into userspace by a kmalloc, ethtool_get_strings, then copy_to_user sequence. Avoid this by using kcalloc to zero fill the copied buffer. Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Acked-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> (cherry picked from commit 68c3e59aa9cdf2d8870d8fbe4f37b1a509d0abeb) Signed-off-by: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
-rw-r--r--net/core/ethtool.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/net/core/ethtool.c b/net/core/ethtool.c
index f9e7179dedf9..ed1750592547 100644
--- a/net/core/ethtool.c
+++ b/net/core/ethtool.c
@@ -794,7 +794,7 @@ static int ethtool_get_strings(struct net_device *dev, void __user *useraddr)
}
}
- data = kmalloc(gstrings.len * ETH_GSTRING_LEN, GFP_USER);
+ data = kcalloc(gstrings.len, ETH_GSTRING_LEN, GFP_USER);
if (!data)
return -ENOMEM;