From: Kangjie Lu <redacted>
commit 4116def2337991b39919f3b448326e21c40e0dbb upstream.
This fixes CVE-2016-5244.
The last field "flags" of object "minfo" is not initialized.
Copying this object out may leak kernel stack data.
Assign 0 to it to avoid leak.
Signed-off-by: Kangjie Lu <redacted>
Acked-by: Santosh Shilimkar <redacted>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Juerg Haefliger <redacted>
---
net/rds/recv.c | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
diff --git a/net/rds/recv.c b/net/rds/recv.c
index a00462b0d01d..0514af3ab378 100644
--- a/net/rds/recv.c
+++ b/net/rds/recv.c
@@ -545,5 +545,7 @@ void rds_inc_info_copy(struct rds_incoming *inc,
minfo.fport = inc->i_hdr.h_dport;
}
+ minfo.flags = 0;
+
rds_info_copy(iter, &minfo, sizeof(minfo));
}
--
2.9.3