Commit 3f90898b authored by Joe Perches's avatar Joe Perches Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
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ethtool: Use kcalloc instead of kmalloc for ethtool_get_strings



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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>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
parent 3043def8
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