[3.8.y.z extended stable] Patch "Staging: bcm: 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

    Staging: bcm: 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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>From 92fa0f8b50435eae76fcf4a72e765c5f1eee58d3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter at oracle.com>
Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2013 23:01:11 +0300
Subject: Staging: bcm: info leak in ioctl

commit 8d1e72250c847fa96498ec029891de4dc638a5ba upstream.

The DevInfo.u32Reserved[] array isn't initialized so it leaks kernel
information to user space.

Reported-by: Nico Golde <nico at ngolde.de>
Reported-by: Fabian Yamaguchi <fabs at goesec.de>
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter at oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds at linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/staging/bcm/Bcmchar.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/bcm/Bcmchar.c b/drivers/staging/bcm/Bcmchar.c
index efad33e..7bb7689 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/bcm/Bcmchar.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/bcm/Bcmchar.c
@@ -1960,6 +1960,7 @@ cntrlEnd:

 		BCM_DEBUG_PRINT(Adapter, DBG_TYPE_OTHERS, OSAL_DBG, DBG_LVL_ALL, "Called IOCTL_BCM_GET_DEVICE_DRIVER_INFO\n");

+		memset(&DevInfo, 0, sizeof(DevInfo));
 		DevInfo.MaxRDMBufferSize = BUFFER_4K;
 		DevInfo.u32DSDStartOffset = EEPROM_CALPARAM_START;
 		DevInfo.u32RxAlignmentCorrection = 0;
--
1.8.1.2