[ 3.8.y.z extended stable ] Patch "ipv6, gre: do not leak info to user-space" has been added to staging queue

[Kamal Mostafa]

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

    ipv6,gre: do not leak info to user-space

to the linux-3.8.y-queue branch of the 3.8.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-3.8.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 3.8.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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From: Amerigo Wang <amwang at redhat.com>
Date: Thu, 9 May 2013 21:56:37 +0000
Subject: ipv6,gre: do not leak info to user-space

[ Upstream commit 5dbd5068430b8bd1c19387d46d6c1a88b261257f ]

There is a hole in struct ip6_tnl_parm2, so we have to
zero the struct on stack before copying it to user-space.

Cc: David S. Miller <davem at davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <amwang at redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem at davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 net/ipv6/ip6_gre.c | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/net/ipv6/ip6_gre.c b/net/ipv6/ip6_gre.c
index 131dd09..a4c5ae7 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/ip6_gre.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/ip6_gre.c
@@ -1137,6 +1137,7 @@ static int ip6gre_tunnel_ioctl(struct net_device *dev,
 		}
 		if (t == NULL)
 			t = netdev_priv(dev);
+		memset(&p, 0, sizeof(p));
 		ip6gre_tnl_parm_to_user(&p, &t->parms);
 		if (copy_to_user(ifr->ifr_ifru.ifru_data, &p, sizeof(p)))
 			err = -EFAULT;
@@ -1184,6 +1185,7 @@ static int ip6gre_tunnel_ioctl(struct net_device *dev,
 		if (t) {
 			err = 0;

+			memset(&p, 0, sizeof(p));
 			ip6gre_tnl_parm_to_user(&p, &t->parms);
 			if (copy_to_user(ifr->ifr_ifru.ifru_data, &p, sizeof(p)))
 				err = -EFAULT;
--
1.8.1.2