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Commit ef3313e8 authored by Mathias Krause's avatar Mathias Krause Committed by David S. Miller
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ax25: fix info leak via msg_name in ax25_recvmsg()



When msg_namelen is non-zero the sockaddr info gets filled out, as
requested, but the code fails to initialize the padding bytes of struct
sockaddr_ax25 inserted by the compiler for alignment. Additionally the
msg_namelen value is updated to sizeof(struct full_sockaddr_ax25) but is
not always filled up to this size.

Both issues lead to the fact that the code will leak uninitialized
kernel stack bytes in net/socket.c.

Fix both issues by initializing the memory with memset(0).

Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarMathias Krause <minipli@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent 9b3e617f
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