drivers/char/ppdev.c: fix information leak to userland
Structure par_timeout is copied to userland with some padding fields
unitialized. Field tv_usec has type __kernel_suseconds_t, it differs from
tv_sec's type on some architectures. It leads to leaking of stack memory.
Signed-off-by: Vasiliy Kulikov <segooon@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
diff --git a/drivers/char/ppdev.c b/drivers/char/ppdev.c
index 723152d..f176dba 100644
--- a/drivers/char/ppdev.c
+++ b/drivers/char/ppdev.c
@@ -613,6 +613,7 @@
case PPGETTIME:
to_jiffies = pp->pdev->timeout;
+ memset(&par_timeout, 0, sizeof(par_timeout));
par_timeout.tv_sec = to_jiffies / HZ;
par_timeout.tv_usec = (to_jiffies % (long)HZ) * (1000000/HZ);
if (copy_to_user (argp, &par_timeout, sizeof(struct timeval)))