Commit 1309d7af authored by Peter Huewe's avatar Peter Huewe Committed by Linus Torvalds

char/tpm: Fix unitialized usage of data buffer

This patch fixes information leakage to the userspace by initializing
the data buffer to zero.
Reported-by: default avatarPeter Huewe <huewe.external@infineon.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter Huewe <huewe.external@infineon.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarMarcel Selhorst <m.selhorst@sirrix.com>
[ Also removed the silly "* sizeof(u8)".  If that isn't 1, we have way
  deeper problems than a simple multiplication can fix.   - Linus ]
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent 0444d76a
......@@ -980,7 +980,7 @@ int tpm_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *file)
return -EBUSY;
}
chip->data_buffer = kmalloc(TPM_BUFSIZE * sizeof(u8), GFP_KERNEL);
chip->data_buffer = kzalloc(TPM_BUFSIZE, GFP_KERNEL);
if (chip->data_buffer == NULL) {
clear_bit(0, &chip->is_open);
put_device(chip->dev);
......
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