Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754105AbbLIKkc (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Dec 2015 05:40:32 -0500 Received: from youngberry.canonical.com ([91.189.89.112]:45000 "EHLO youngberry.canonical.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753639AbbLIJiu (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Dec 2015 04:38:50 -0500 From: Luis Henriques 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 , Luis Henriques Subject: [PATCH 3.16.y-ckt 015/126] HID: core: Avoid uninitialized buffer access Date: Wed, 9 Dec 2015 09:36:25 +0000 Message-Id: <1449653896-5236-16-git-send-email-luis.henriques@canonical.com> In-Reply-To: <1449653896-5236-1-git-send-email-luis.henriques@canonical.com> References: <1449653896-5236-1-git-send-email-luis.henriques@canonical.com> X-Extended-Stable: 3.16 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1611 Lines: 44 3.16.7-ckt21 -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: Luis Henriques --- 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 5ed3a7b91b4c..fb16c812816a 100644 --- a/drivers/hid/hid-core.c +++ b/drivers/hid/hid-core.c @@ -1561,7 +1561,7 @@ 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; -- 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/