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ethtool: Use kcalloc instead of kmalloc for ethtool_get_strings

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It seems that kernel memory can leak into userspace by a
kmalloc, ethtool_get_strings, then copy_to_user sequence.

Avoid this by using kcalloc to zero fill the copied buffer.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Acked-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Joe Perches
2015-10-14 01:09:40 -07:00
committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
parent 9db7ed146a
commit c4fc18ccc4
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@@ -1066,7 +1066,7 @@ static int ethtool_get_strings(struct net_device *dev, void __user *useraddr)
gstrings.len = ret;
data = kmalloc(gstrings.len * ETH_GSTRING_LEN, GFP_USER);
data = kcalloc(gstrings.len, ETH_GSTRING_LEN, GFP_USER);
if (!data)
return -ENOMEM;