wext: fix potential private ioctl memory content leak
commitb381cabc483913da8a3e591885f9008c9efddd21
authorJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Thu, 16 Sep 2010 22:38:25 +0000 (17 00:38 +0200)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Fri, 29 Oct 2010 04:44:02 +0000 (28 21:44 -0700)
tree8bc80950d5f370cb7271abf6ed30bcbf56167edd
parent9921a24c5d59ca4e16364d9973b90a68e6642732
wext: fix potential private ioctl memory content leak

commit df6d02300f7c2fbd0fbe626d819c8e5237d72c62 upstream.

When a driver doesn't fill the entire buffer, old
heap contents may remain, and if it also doesn't
update the length properly, this old heap content
will be copied back to userspace.

It is very unlikely that this happens in any of
the drivers using private ioctls since it would
show up as junk being reported by iwpriv, but it
seems better to be safe here, so use kzalloc.

Reported-by: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
net/wireless/wext.c