[3.16.y-ckt stable] Patch "IB/core: Avoid leakage from kernel to user space" has been added to staging queue

[Luis Henriques]

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

    IB/core: Avoid leakage from kernel to user space

to the linux-3.16.y-queue branch of the 3.16.y-ckt extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.16.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.16.7-ckt10.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.16.y-ckt tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Luis

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>From 1b73865648478d898b008014e096233ca68d3093 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Eli Cohen <eli at dev.mellanox.co.il>
Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2014 16:47:52 +0300
Subject: IB/core: Avoid leakage from kernel to user space

commit 377b513485fd885dea1083a9a5430df65b35e048 upstream.

Clear the reserved field of struct ib_uverbs_async_event_desc which is
copied to user space.

Signed-off-by: Eli Cohen <eli at mellanox.com>
Reviewed-by: Yann Droneaud <ydroneaud at opteya.com>
Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <roland at purestorage.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/infiniband/core/uverbs_main.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/core/uverbs_main.c b/drivers/infiniband/core/uverbs_main.c
index 08219fb3338b..7a515c867674 100644
--- a/drivers/infiniband/core/uverbs_main.c
+++ b/drivers/infiniband/core/uverbs_main.c
@@ -476,6 +476,7 @@ static void ib_uverbs_async_handler(struct ib_uverbs_file *file,

 	entry->desc.async.element    = element;
 	entry->desc.async.event_type = event;
+	entry->desc.async.reserved   = 0;
 	entry->counter               = counter;

 	list_add_tail(&entry->list, &file->async_file->event_list);