3.18-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Vlad Tsyrklevich vlad@tsyrklevich.net
[ Upstream commit ce7e40c432ba84da104438f6799d460a4cad41bc ]
ipddp_route structs contain alignment padding so kernel heap memory is leaked when they are copied to user space in ipddp_ioctl(SIOCFINDIPDDPRT). Change kmalloc() to kzalloc() to clear that memory.
Signed-off-by: Vlad Tsyrklevich vlad@tsyrklevich.net Signed-off-by: David S. Miller davem@davemloft.net Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin alexander.levin@verizon.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- drivers/net/appletalk/ipddp.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/drivers/net/appletalk/ipddp.c +++ b/drivers/net/appletalk/ipddp.c @@ -191,7 +191,7 @@ static netdev_tx_t ipddp_xmit(struct sk_ */ static int ipddp_create(struct ipddp_route *new_rt) { - struct ipddp_route *rt = kmalloc(sizeof(*rt), GFP_KERNEL); + struct ipddp_route *rt = kzalloc(sizeof(*rt), GFP_KERNEL);
if (rt == NULL) return -ENOMEM;