From: Joe Perches <[email protected]> [ Upstream commit 5e1aada08cd19ea652b2d32a250501d09b02ff2e ]
Initialization is not guaranteed to zero padding bytes so use an explicit memset instead to avoid leaking any kernel content in any possible padding bytes. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <[email protected]> Cc: Dan Carpenter <[email protected]> Cc: Julia Lawall <[email protected]> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]> Cc: Kees Cook <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <[email protected]> --- kernel/sys.c | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/kernel/sys.c b/kernel/sys.c index 157277cbf83aa..546cdc911dad4 100644 --- a/kernel/sys.c +++ b/kernel/sys.c @@ -1183,11 +1183,13 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE1(uname, struct old_utsname __user *, name) SYSCALL_DEFINE1(olduname, struct oldold_utsname __user *, name) { - struct oldold_utsname tmp = {}; + struct oldold_utsname tmp; if (!name) return -EFAULT; + memset(&tmp, 0, sizeof(tmp)); + down_read(&uts_sem); memcpy(&tmp.sysname, &utsname()->sysname, __OLD_UTS_LEN); memcpy(&tmp.nodename, &utsname()->nodename, __OLD_UTS_LEN); -- 2.25.1
