[ 3.8.y.z extended stable ] Patch "cpqarray: fix info leak in ida_locked_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

    cpqarray: fix info leak in ida_locked_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 3.8.13.11.

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 f0c6c1e15d3acc4167f141176ba1aa954b6b92a4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter at oracle.com>
Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2013 15:27:44 -0700
Subject: cpqarray: fix info leak in ida_locked_ioctl()

commit 627aad1c01da6f881e7f98d71fd928ca0c316b1a upstream.

The pciinfo struct has a two byte hole after ->dev_fn so stack
information could be leaked to the user.

This was assigned CVE-2013-2147.

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter at oracle.com>
Acked-by: Mike Miller <mike.miller at hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm at linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds at linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/block/cpqarray.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/drivers/block/cpqarray.c b/drivers/block/cpqarray.c
index 3f08713..3997d04 100644
--- a/drivers/block/cpqarray.c
+++ b/drivers/block/cpqarray.c
@@ -1195,6 +1195,7 @@ out_passthru:
 		ida_pci_info_struct pciinfo;

 		if (!arg) return -EINVAL;
+		memset(&pciinfo, 0, sizeof(pciinfo));
 		pciinfo.bus = host->pci_dev->bus->number;
 		pciinfo.dev_fn = host->pci_dev->devfn;
 		pciinfo.board_id = host->board_id;
--
1.8.1.2