Thread (2 messages) 2 messages, 2 authors, 2025-09-29

[PATCH] Input: uinput - zero-initialize uinput_ff_upload_compat to avoid info leak

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From: Zhen Ni <hidden>
Date: 2025-09-28 07:53:29
Also in: stable
Subsystem: input (keyboard, mouse, joystick, touchscreen) drivers, the rest · Maintainers: Dmitry Torokhov, Linus Torvalds

Landed in mainline as d3366a04770e on 2025-09-29.

Struct ff_effect_compat is embedded twice inside
uinput_ff_upload_compat, contains internal padding. In particular, there
is a hole after struct ff_replay to satisfy alignment requirements for
the following union member. Without clearing the structure,
copy_to_user() may leak stack data to userspace.

Initialize ff_up_compat to zero before filling valid fields.

Fixes: 2d56f3a32c0e ("Input: refactor evdev 32bit compat to be shareable with uinput")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Zhen Ni <redacted>
---
 drivers/input/misc/uinput.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
diff --git a/drivers/input/misc/uinput.c b/drivers/input/misc/uinput.c
index 2c51ea9d01d7..13336a2fd49c 100644
--- a/drivers/input/misc/uinput.c
+++ b/drivers/input/misc/uinput.c
@@ -775,6 +775,7 @@ static int uinput_ff_upload_to_user(char __user *buffer,
 	if (in_compat_syscall()) {
 		struct uinput_ff_upload_compat ff_up_compat;
 
+		memset(&ff_up_compat, 0, sizeof(ff_up_compat));
 		ff_up_compat.request_id = ff_up->request_id;
 		ff_up_compat.retval = ff_up->retval;
 		/*
-- 
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