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authorJann Horn <jannh@google.com>2018-06-20 18:33:45 +0200
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2018-08-24 13:09:07 +0200
commit4c3b0ae79f0736993c444980c40ebf7a103b6f39 (patch)
tree0eec30e2d7bb025d4418fe659760f3370a4aeefb
parent1ea053d1cc8bc6e52e5ecb34cafc1e41d33d5602 (diff)
downloadlinux-4c3b0ae79f0736993c444980c40ebf7a103b6f39.tar.gz
netfilter: nf_log: fix uninit read in nf_log_proc_dostring
[ Upstream commit dffd22aed2aa1e804bccf19b30a421e89ee2ae61 ] When proc_dostring() is called with a non-zero offset in strict mode, it doesn't just write to the ->data buffer, it also reads. Make sure it doesn't read uninitialized data. Fixes: c6ac37d8d884 ("netfilter: nf_log: fix error on write NONE to [...]") Signed-off-by: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
-rw-r--r--net/netfilter/nf_log.c4
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/net/netfilter/nf_log.c b/net/netfilter/nf_log.c
index 276324abfa604d..cdc744aa58893c 100644
--- a/net/netfilter/nf_log.c
+++ b/net/netfilter/nf_log.c
@@ -440,6 +440,10 @@ static int nf_log_proc_dostring(struct ctl_table *table, int write,
if (write) {
struct ctl_table tmp = *table;
+ /* proc_dostring() can append to existing strings, so we need to
+ * initialize it as an empty string.
+ */
+ buf[0] = '\0';
tmp.data = buf;
r = proc_dostring(&tmp, write, buffer, lenp, ppos);
if (r)