[PATCH v2] fbdev: potential information leak in do_fb_ioctl()

Dan Carpenter dan.carpenter at oracle.com
Mon Jan 13 11:08:14 UTC 2020


The "fix" struct has a 2 byte hole after ->ywrapstep and the
"fix = info->fix;" assignment doesn't necessarily clear it.  It depends
on the compiler.  The solution is just to replace the assignment with an
memcpy().

Fixes: 1f5e31d7e55a ("fbmem: don't call copy_from/to_user() with mutex held")
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter at oracle.com>
---
v2:  Use memcpy()

 drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbmem.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbmem.c b/drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbmem.c
index d04554959ea7..bb8d8dbc0461 100644
--- a/drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbmem.c
+++ b/drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbmem.c
@@ -1115,7 +1115,7 @@ static long do_fb_ioctl(struct fb_info *info, unsigned int cmd,
 		break;
 	case FBIOGET_FSCREENINFO:
 		lock_fb_info(info);
-		fix = info->fix;
+		memcpy(&fix, &info->fix, sizeof(fix));
 		if (info->flags & FBINFO_HIDE_SMEM_START)
 			fix.smem_start = 0;
 		unlock_fb_info(info);
-- 
2.11.0



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