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compat: fix 4-byte infoleak via uninitialized struct field
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Commit 3a4d44b ("ntp: Move adjtimex related compat syscalls to
native counterparts") removed the memset() in compat_get_timex().  Since
then, the compat adjtimex syscall can invoke do_adjtimex() with an
uninitialized ->tai.

If do_adjtimex() doesn't write to ->tai (e.g.  because the arguments are
invalid), compat_put_timex() then copies the uninitialized ->tai field
to userspace.

Fix it by adding the memset() back.

Fixes: 3a4d44b ("ntp: Move adjtimex related compat syscalls to native counterparts")
Signed-off-by: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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thejh authored and torvalds committed May 11, 2018
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Expand Up @@ -34,6 +34,7 @@ int compat_get_timex(struct timex *txc, const struct compat_timex __user *utp)
{
struct compat_timex tx32;

memset(txc, 0, sizeof(struct timex));
if (copy_from_user(&tx32, utp, sizeof(struct compat_timex)))
return -EFAULT;

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