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authorVasiliy Kulikov <segooon@gmail.com>2010-10-30 16:22:49 +0200
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2010-10-30 17:25:51 +0200
commit3af54c9bd9e6f14f896aac1bb0e8405ae0bc7a44 (patch)
tree74eb7ea6396c3ad00fce944789071ded2e0b85e8 /ipc/shm.c
parentfs/compat.c: fix build on MIPS/s390 (diff)
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ipc: shm: fix information leak to userland
The shmid_ds structure is copied to userland with shm_unused{,2,3} fields unitialized. It leads to leaking of contents of kernel stack memory. Signed-off-by: Vasiliy Kulikov <segooon@gmail.com> Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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diff --git a/ipc/shm.c b/ipc/shm.c
index fd658a1c2b88..7d3bb22a9302 100644
--- a/ipc/shm.c
+++ b/ipc/shm.c
@@ -479,6 +479,7 @@ static inline unsigned long copy_shmid_to_user(void __user *buf, struct shmid64_
{
struct shmid_ds out;
+ memset(&out, 0, sizeof(out));
ipc64_perm_to_ipc_perm(&in->shm_perm, &out.shm_perm);
out.shm_segsz = in->shm_segsz;
out.shm_atime = in->shm_atime;