Commit 8c7a0e49 authored by Joe Perches's avatar Joe Perches Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman

ethtool: Use kcalloc instead of kmalloc for ethtool_get_strings

[ Upstream commit 077cb37f ]

It seems that kernel memory can leak into userspace by a
kmalloc, ethtool_get_strings, then copy_to_user sequence.

Avoid this by using kcalloc to zero fill the copied buffer.
Signed-off-by: default avatarJoe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Acked-by: default avatarBen Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
parent 321e1179
......@@ -1080,7 +1080,7 @@ static int ethtool_get_strings(struct net_device *dev, void __user *useraddr)
gstrings.len = ret;
data = kmalloc(gstrings.len * ETH_GSTRING_LEN, GFP_USER);
data = kcalloc(gstrings.len, ETH_GSTRING_LEN, GFP_USER);
if (!data)
return -ENOMEM;
......
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