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Commit 077cb37f authored by Joe Perches's avatar Joe Perches Committed by David S. Miller
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ethtool: Use kcalloc instead of kmalloc for ethtool_get_strings



It seems that kernel memory can leak into userspace by a
kmalloc, ethtool_get_strings, then copy_to_user sequence.

Avoid this by using kcalloc to zero fill the copied buffer.

Signed-off-by: default avatarJoe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Acked-by: default avatarBen Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent ef41a2ce
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