Subject: Re: [patch -next] wan/fsl_ucc_hdlc: info leak in uhdlc_ioctl()

From: walter harms <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2016 12:52:16 +0200

Am 14.07.2016 12:34, schrieb Dan Carpenter:
> There is a 2 byte struct whole after line.loopback so we need to clear
> that out to avoid disclosing stack information.
> 
> Fixes: c19b6d246a35 ('drivers/net: support hdlc function for QE-UCC')
> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <[email-masked]>
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/net/wan/fsl_ucc_hdlc.c b/drivers/net/wan/fsl_ucc_hdlc.c
> index 19174ac..7608561 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/wan/fsl_ucc_hdlc.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/wan/fsl_ucc_hdlc.c
> @@ -635,6 +635,7 @@ static int uhdlc_ioctl(struct net_device *dev, struct ifreq *ifr, int cmd)
>  			ifr->ifr_settings.size = size; /* data size wanted */
>  			return -ENOBUFS;
>  		}
> +		memset(&line, 0, sizeof(line));
>  		line.clock_type = priv->clocking;
>  		line.clock_rate = 0;
>  		line.loopback = 0;

In this case
  		line.clock_rate = 0;
 		line.loopback = 0;

are not need any more and can be removed
except like them to have for documentation or so.

re,
 wh