[PATCH] econet: 4 byte infoleak to the network

struct aunhdr has 4 padding bytes between 'pad' and 'handle' fields on
x86_64.  These bytes are not initialized in the variable 'ah' before
sending 'ah' to the network.  This leads to 4 bytes kernel stack
infoleak.

This bug was introduced before the git epoch.

Signed-off-by: Vasiliy Kulikov <redacted>
---
 net/econet/af_econet.c |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/econet/af_econet.c b/net/econet/af_econet.c
index 0c28263..116d3fd 100644
--- a/net/econet/af_econet.c
+++ b/net/econet/af_econet.c

@@ -435,10 +435,10 @@ static int econet_sendmsg(struct kiocb *iocb, struct socket *sock,
 		udpdest.sin_addr.s_addr = htonl(network | addr.station);
 	}
 
+	memset(&ah, 0, sizeof(ah));
 	ah.port = port;
 	ah.cb = cb & 0x7f;
 	ah.code = 2;		/* magic */
-	ah.pad = 0;
 
 	/* tack our header on the front of the iovec */
 	size = sizeof(struct aunhdr);

-- 
1.7.0.4

On Thu, 2011-03-17 at 14:40 +0300, Vasiliy Kulikov wrote:

struct aunhdr has 4 padding bytes between 'pad' and 'handle' fields on
x86_64.  These bytes are not initialized in the variable 'ah' before
sending 'ah' to the network.  This leads to 4 bytes kernel stack
infoleak.

This bug was introduced before the git epoch.

Signed-off-by: Vasiliy Kulikov <redacted>

Well spotted.  Thanks for the patch.

Acked-by: Phil Blundell <philb@gnu.org>

p.

From: Phil Blundell <philb@gnu.org>
Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2011 11:50:01 +0000

On Thu, 2011-03-17 at 14:40 +0300, Vasiliy Kulikov wrote:

quoted

struct aunhdr has 4 padding bytes between 'pad' and 'handle' fields on
x86_64.  These bytes are not initialized in the variable 'ah' before
sending 'ah' to the network.  This leads to 4 bytes kernel stack
infoleak.

This bug was introduced before the git epoch.

Signed-off-by: Vasiliy Kulikov <redacted>

Well spotted.  Thanks for the patch.

Acked-by: Phil Blundell <philb@gnu.org>

Applied.