[ 3.5.y.z extended stable ] Patch "fanotify: info leak in copy_event_to_user()" has been added to staging queue

[Luis Henriques]

This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    fanotify: info leak in copy_event_to_user()

to the linux-3.5.y-queue branch of the 3.5.y.z extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.5.y-queue

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.5.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Luis

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>From 7e366b4cd045c9531cc5a3e29bb9befa04ce5a11 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter at oracle.com>
Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2013 15:59:40 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] fanotify: info leak in copy_event_to_user()

commit de1e0c40aceb9d5bff09c3a3b97b2f1b178af53f upstream.

The ->reserved field isn't cleared so we leak one byte of stack
information to userspace.

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter at oracle.com>
Cc: Eric Paris <eparis at redhat.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro at zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm at linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds at linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify_user.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify_user.c b/fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify_user.c
index 3568c8a..48bc91d 100644
--- a/fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify_user.c
+++ b/fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify_user.c
@@ -120,6 +120,7 @@ static int fill_event_metadata(struct fsnotify_group *group,
 	metadata->event_len = FAN_EVENT_METADATA_LEN;
 	metadata->metadata_len = FAN_EVENT_METADATA_LEN;
 	metadata->vers = FANOTIFY_METADATA_VERSION;
+	metadata->reserved = 0;
 	metadata->mask = event->mask & FAN_ALL_OUTGOING_EVENTS;
 	metadata->pid = pid_vnr(event->tgid);
 	if (unlikely(event->mask & FAN_Q_OVERFLOW))
--
1.8.1.2