[ 3.5.y.z extended stable ] Patch "rtnl: fix info leak on RTM_GETLINK request for VF devices" has been added to staging queue

[Luis Henriques]

This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    rtnl: fix info leak on RTM_GETLINK request for VF devices

to the linux-3.5.y-queue branch of the 3.5.y.z extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.5.y-queue

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.5.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Luis

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>From 4309466c9a5c52702c2c3ece6ceb9f7f0afb0640 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mathias Krause <minipli at googlemail.com>
Date: Sat, 9 Mar 2013 05:52:20 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] rtnl: fix info leak on RTM_GETLINK request for VF devices

commit 84d73cd3fb142bf1298a8c13fd4ca50fd2432372 upstream.

Initialize the mac address buffer with 0 as the driver specific function
will probably not fill the whole buffer. In fact, all in-kernel drivers
fill only ETH_ALEN of the MAX_ADDR_LEN bytes, i.e. 6 of the 32 possible
bytes. Therefore we currently leak 26 bytes of stack memory to userland
via the netlink interface.

Signed-off-by: Mathias Krause <minipli at googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem at davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 net/core/rtnetlink.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/net/core/rtnetlink.c b/net/core/rtnetlink.c
index 6c50ac0..8f37bec 100644
--- a/net/core/rtnetlink.c
+++ b/net/core/rtnetlink.c
@@ -981,6 +981,7 @@ static int rtnl_fill_ifinfo(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev,
 			 * report anything.
 			 */
 			ivi.spoofchk = -1;
+			memset(ivi.mac, 0, sizeof(ivi.mac));
 			if (dev->netdev_ops->ndo_get_vf_config(dev, i, &ivi))
 				break;
 			vf_mac.vf =
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1.8.1.2