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authorTejaswi Tanikella <tejaswit@codeaurora.org>2018-06-11 16:30:24 +0530
committerGerrit - the friendly Code Review server <code-review@localhost>2018-07-02 22:19:07 -0700
commit5539367290c83768be0235c2acc644e82606c117 (patch)
tree4f7db6baa98a7e17b11ce8ddd35e714d7a9cdfe5 /net
parent642d3ae98bb49b7abacea7d120f81921755de3a0 (diff)
net: sockev: fix uninitialized data leak into userspace
Socket event string, notifying userspace of socket event, can leak data into userspace. Memset it before filling it using strlcpy. Change-Id: I37851f32a1b7ce3307644998c2cc7dd617bb7022 Signed-off-by: Tejaswi Tanikella <tejaswit@codeaurora.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'net')
-rw-r--r--net/core/sockev_nlmcast.c4
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/net/core/sockev_nlmcast.c b/net/core/sockev_nlmcast.c
index 749ffb81c87c..3d7dabef6410 100644
--- a/net/core/sockev_nlmcast.c
+++ b/net/core/sockev_nlmcast.c
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
/*
- * Copyright (c) 2014-2015, The Linux Foundation. All rights reserved.
+ * Copyright (c) 2014-2015, 2018 The Linux Foundation. All rights reserved.
*
* This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
* it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 and
@@ -36,6 +36,8 @@ static struct netlink_kernel_cfg nlcfg = {
static void _sockev_event(unsigned long event, __u8 *evstr, int buflen)
{
+ memset(evstr, 0, buflen);
+
switch (event) {
case SOCKEV_SOCKET:
strlcpy(evstr, "SOCKEV_SOCKET", buflen);