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mtd: mtdchar: fix information leak to userland

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Structure mtd_info_user is copied to userland with padding byted
between "type" and "flags" fields uninitialized.  It leads to leaking
of contents of kernel stack memory.

Signed-off-by: Vasiliy Kulikov <segooon@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
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Vasiliy Kulikov 2010-11-06 17:41:24 +03:00 committed by David Woodhouse
parent ac80dac00f
commit a0c5a3944c
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drivers/mtd/mtdchar.c
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@ -601,6 +601,7 @@ static int mtd_ioctl(struct file *file, u_int cmd, u_long arg)
}
case MEMGETINFO:
memset(&info, 0, sizeof(info));
info.type = mtd->type;
info.flags = mtd->flags;
info.size = mtd->size;
@ -609,7 +610,6 @@ static int mtd_ioctl(struct file *file, u_int cmd, u_long arg)
info.oobsize = mtd->oobsize;
/* The below fields are obsolete */
info.ecctype = -1;
info.eccsize = 0;
if (copy_to_user(argp, &info, sizeof(struct mtd_info_user)))
return -EFAULT;
break;