From 0c27922e4933ceb86644f4a9b1af212ffe5aad75 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eric Dumazet Date: Mon, 8 Jun 2009 03:49:24 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] net: dev_addr_init() fix commit f001fde5eadd915f4858d22ed70d7040f48767cf (net: introduce a list of device addresses dev_addr_list (v6)) added one regression Vegard Nossum found in its testings. With kmemcheck help, Vegard found some uninitialized memory was read and reported to user, potentialy leaking kernel data. ( thread can be found on http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/5/30/177 ) dev_addr_init() incorrectly uses sizeof() operator. We were initializing one byte instead of MAX_ADDR_LEN bytes. Reported-by: Vegard Nossum Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Acked-by: Jiri Pirko Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- net/core/dev.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c index 4913089c91dc..81b392ef5114 100644 --- a/net/core/dev.c +++ b/net/core/dev.c @@ -3655,8 +3655,8 @@ static int dev_addr_init(struct net_device *dev) /* rtnl_mutex must be held here */ INIT_LIST_HEAD(&dev->dev_addr_list); - memset(addr, 0, sizeof(*addr)); - err = __hw_addr_add(&dev->dev_addr_list, NULL, addr, sizeof(*addr), + memset(addr, 0, sizeof(addr)); + err = __hw_addr_add(&dev->dev_addr_list, NULL, addr, sizeof(addr), NETDEV_HW_ADDR_T_LAN); if (!err) { /*