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From:   Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org>
To:     gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, arnd@arndb.de
Cc:     linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org>,
        Rodolfo Giometti <giometti@enneenne.com>,
        "Eurotech S.p.A" <info@eurotech.it>,
        David Laight <David.Laight@aculab.com>,
        Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be>
Subject: [PATCH v2 1/2] misc: c2port: core: Make copying name from userspace more secure
Date:   Mon,  2 Nov 2020 14:20:00 +0000
Message-Id: <20201102142001.560490-1-lee.jones@linaro.org>
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Currently the 'c2dev' device data is not initialised when it's
allocated.  There maybe an issue when using strncpy() to populate the
'name' attribute since a NUL terminator may not be provided in all
use-cases.  To prevent such a failing, let's ensure the 'c2dev'
device data area is fully zeroed out on allocation.

Cc: Rodolfo Giometti <giometti@enneenne.com>
Cc: "Eurotech S.p.A" <info@eurotech.it>
Cc: David Laight <David.Laight@aculab.com>
Reported-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org>
---
 drivers/misc/c2port/core.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/misc/c2port/core.c b/drivers/misc/c2port/core.c
index 80d87e8a0bea9..fb9a1b49ff6de 100644
--- a/drivers/misc/c2port/core.c
+++ b/drivers/misc/c2port/core.c
@@ -899,7 +899,7 @@ struct c2port_device *c2port_device_register(char *name,
 		unlikely(!ops->c2d_get) || unlikely(!ops->c2d_set))
 		return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
 
-	c2dev = kmalloc(sizeof(struct c2port_device), GFP_KERNEL);
+	c2dev = kzalloc(sizeof(struct c2port_device), GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (unlikely(!c2dev))
 		return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
 
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