[3.8.y.z extended stable] Patch "hamradio/yam: 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

    hamradio/yam: 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 3.8.13.16.

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: Tue, 17 Dec 2013 10:06:30 +0100
Subject: hamradio/yam: fix info leak in ioctl
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[ Upstream commit 8e3fbf870481eb53b2d3a322d1fc395ad8b367ed ]

The yam_ioctl() code fails to initialise the cmd field
of the struct yamdrv_ioctl_cfg. Add an explicit memset(0)
before filling the structure to avoid the 4-byte 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/hamradio/yam.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/drivers/net/hamradio/yam.c b/drivers/net/hamradio/yam.c
index c6645f1..ab378e0 100644
--- a/drivers/net/hamradio/yam.c
+++ b/drivers/net/hamradio/yam.c
@@ -1058,6 +1058,7 @@ static int yam_ioctl(struct net_device *dev, struct ifreq *ifr, int cmd)
 		break;

 	case SIOCYAMGCFG:
+		memset(&yi, 0, sizeof(yi));
 		yi.cfg.mask = 0xffffffff;
 		yi.cfg.iobase = yp->iobase;
 		yi.cfg.irq = yp->irq;
--
1.8.3.2