[PATCH 3.16.y-ckt 077/144] IB/core: Avoid leakage from kernel to user space

Luis Henriques luis.henriques at canonical.com
Tue Apr 21 15:31:02 UTC 2015


3.16.7-ckt10 -stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Eli Cohen <eli at dev.mellanox.co.il>

commit 377b513485fd885dea1083a9a5430df65b35e048 upstream.

Clear the reserved field of struct ib_uverbs_async_event_desc which is
copied to user space.

Signed-off-by: Eli Cohen <eli at mellanox.com>
Reviewed-by: Yann Droneaud <ydroneaud at opteya.com>
Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <roland at purestorage.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/infiniband/core/uverbs_main.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/core/uverbs_main.c b/drivers/infiniband/core/uverbs_main.c
index 08219fb3338b..7a515c867674 100644
--- a/drivers/infiniband/core/uverbs_main.c
+++ b/drivers/infiniband/core/uverbs_main.c
@@ -476,6 +476,7 @@ static void ib_uverbs_async_handler(struct ib_uverbs_file *file,
 
 	entry->desc.async.element    = element;
 	entry->desc.async.event_type = event;
+	entry->desc.async.reserved   = 0;
 	entry->counter               = counter;
 
 	list_add_tail(&entry->list, &file->async_file->event_list);




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