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From: Vasiliy Kulikov <segooon@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2010 14:22:49 +0000 (+0400)
Subject: ipc: shm: fix information leak to userland
X-Git-Tag: v2.6.37-rc1~24
X-Git-Url: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux%2Fkernel%2Fgit%2Ftorvalds%2Flinux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=3af54c9bd9e6f14f896aac1bb0e8405ae0bc7a44

ipc: shm: fix information leak to userland

The shmid_ds structure is copied to userland with shm_unused{,2,3}
fields unitialized.  It leads to leaking of contents of kernel stack
memory.

Signed-off-by: Vasiliy Kulikov <segooon@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
---

diff --git a/ipc/shm.c b/ipc/shm.c
index fd658a1..7d3bb22 100644
--- a/ipc/shm.c
+++ b/ipc/shm.c
@@ -479,6 +479,7 @@ static inline unsigned long copy_shmid_to_user(void __user *buf, struct shmid64_
 	    {
 		struct shmid_ds out;
 
+		memset(&out, 0, sizeof(out));
 		ipc64_perm_to_ipc_perm(&in->shm_perm, &out.shm_perm);
 		out.shm_segsz	= in->shm_segsz;
 		out.shm_atime	= in->shm_atime;