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Commit 27259259 authored by Johan Hovold's avatar Johan Hovold Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
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ipack: ipoctal: fix stack information leak

commit a89936cc upstream.

The tty driver name is used also after registering the driver and must
specifically not be allocated on the stack to avoid leaking information
to user space (or triggering an oops).

Drivers should not try to encode topology information in the tty device
name but this one snuck in through staging without anyone noticing and
another driver has since copied this malpractice.

Fixing the ABI is a separate issue, but this at least plugs the security
hole.

Fixes: ba4dc61f

 ("Staging: ipack: add support for IP-OCTAL mezzanine board")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org      # 3.5
Acked-by: default avatarSamuel Iglesias Gonsalvez <siglesias@igalia.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJohan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210917114622.5412-2-johan@kernel.org


Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
parent 9d76f723
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