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authorKees Cook <kees.cook@canonical.com>2010-10-11 12:23:25 -0700
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2010-10-11 12:23:25 -0700
commitb00916b189d13a615ff05c9242201135992fcda3 (patch)
treecc5c416e5bc6ba69534ce880cc135364dcb91baa /lib
parent0aa7deadffd8b596983a3abe29a218b4c5f43301 (diff)
downloadlinux-b00916b189d13a615ff05c9242201135992fcda3.tar.gz
net: clear heap allocations for privileged ethtool actions
Several other ethtool functions leave heap uncleared (potentially) by
drivers. Some interfaces appear safe (eeprom, etc), in that the sizes
are well controlled. In some situations (e.g. unchecked error conditions),
the heap will remain unchanged in areas before copying back to userspace.
Note that these are less of an issue since these all require CAP_NET_ADMIN.

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <kees.cook@canonical.com>
Acked-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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