[3.8.y.z extended stable] Patch "wanxl: fix info leak in ioctl" has been added to staging queue

[Kamal Mostafa]

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

    wanxl: fix info leak in ioctl

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

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.8.13.13.

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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Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2013 12:46:50 +0200
Subject: wanxl: fix info leak in ioctl
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[ Upstream commit 2b13d06c9584b4eb773f1e80bbaedab9a1c344e1 ]

The wanxl_ioctl() code fails to initialize the two padding bytes of
struct sync_serial_settings after the ->loopback member. Add an explicit
memset(0) before filling the structure to avoid the info leak.

Signed-off-by: Salva Peiró <speiro at ai2.upv.es>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem at davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/net/wan/wanxl.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/drivers/net/wan/wanxl.c b/drivers/net/wan/wanxl.c
index 6a24a5a..4c0a697 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wan/wanxl.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wan/wanxl.c
@@ -355,6 +355,7 @@ static int wanxl_ioctl(struct net_device *dev, struct ifreq *ifr, int cmd)
 			ifr->ifr_settings.size = size; /* data size wanted */
 			return -ENOBUFS;
 		}
+		memset(&line, 0, sizeof(line));
 		line.clock_type = get_status(port)->clocking;
 		line.clock_rate = 0;
 		line.loopback = 0;
--
1.8.1.2