[PATCH] staging: kpc2000: Fix a stack information leak in kp2000_cdev_ioctl()

Dan Carpenter dan.carpenter at oracle.com
Tue Apr 30 10:35:05 UTC 2019


The kp2000_regs struct has a 4 byte hole between ->hw_rev and ->ssid so
this could leak stack information to the user.  This patch just memsets
the whole struct to zero.

Fixes: 7dc7967fc39a ("staging: kpc2000: add initial set of Daktronics drivers")
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter at oracle.com>
---
 drivers/staging/kpc2000/kpc2000/fileops.c | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/kpc2000/kpc2000/fileops.c b/drivers/staging/kpc2000/kpc2000/fileops.c
index 4bfba59570e6..a6beca8dbac5 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/kpc2000/kpc2000/fileops.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/kpc2000/kpc2000/fileops.c
@@ -91,6 +91,8 @@ long  kp2000_cdev_ioctl(struct file *filp, unsigned int ioctl_num, unsigned long
 	case KP2000_IOCTL_GET_EVERYTHING: {
 		struct kp2000_regs temp;
 		int ret;
+
+		memset(&temp, 0, sizeof(temp));
 		temp.card_id = pcard->card_id;
 		temp.build_version = pcard->build_version;
 		temp.build_datestamp = pcard->build_datestamp;
-- 
2.18.0



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