Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933727AbbLBR51 (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Dec 2015 12:57:27 -0500 Received: from youngberry.canonical.com ([91.189.89.112]:43291 "EHLO youngberry.canonical.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933053AbbLBRAr (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Dec 2015 12:00:47 -0500 From: Kamal Mostafa To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org, kernel-team@lists.ubuntu.com Cc: Richard Purdie , Jiri Kosina , linux-input@vger.kernel.org, Darren Hart , Jiri Kosina , Kamal Mostafa Subject: [PATCH 3.19.y-ckt 021/164] HID: core: Avoid uninitialized buffer access Date: Wed, 2 Dec 2015 08:57:52 -0800 Message-Id: <1449075615-20754-22-git-send-email-kamal@canonical.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.9.1 In-Reply-To: <1449075615-20754-1-git-send-email-kamal@canonical.com> References: <1449075615-20754-1-git-send-email-kamal@canonical.com> X-Extended-Stable: 3.19 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1602 Lines: 47 3.19.8-ckt11 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Richard Purdie commit 79b568b9d0c7c5d81932f4486d50b38efdd6da6d upstream. hid_connect adds various strings to the buffer but they're all conditional. You can find circumstances where nothing would be written to it but the kernel will still print the supposedly empty buffer with printk. This leads to corruption on the console/in the logs. Ensure buf is initialized to an empty string. Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie [dvhart: Initialize string to "" rather than assign buf[0] = NULL;] Cc: Jiri Kosina Cc: linux-input@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Darren Hart Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa --- drivers/hid/hid-core.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/hid/hid-core.c b/drivers/hid/hid-core.c index 8b63879..d7d965f 100644 --- a/drivers/hid/hid-core.c +++ b/drivers/hid/hid-core.c @@ -1562,7 +1562,7 @@ int hid_connect(struct hid_device *hdev, unsigned int connect_mask) "Multi-Axis Controller" }; const char *type, *bus; - char buf[64]; + char buf[64] = ""; unsigned int i; int len; int ret; -- 1.9.1 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/