This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
char/tpm: Fix unitialized usage of data buffer
to the 2.6.32-longterm tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/longterm/longterm-queue-2.6.32.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
char-tpm-fix-unitialized-usage-of-data-buffer.patch
and it can be found in the queue-2.6.32 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the 2.6.32 longterm
tree,
please let <[email protected]> know about it.
>From 1309d7afbed112f0e8e90be9af975550caa0076b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Peter Huewe <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2011 13:31:25 +0200
Subject: char/tpm: Fix unitialized usage of data buffer
From: Peter Huewe <[email protected]>
commit 1309d7afbed112f0e8e90be9af975550caa0076b upstream.
This patch fixes information leakage to the userspace by initializing
the data buffer to zero.
Reported-by: Peter Huewe <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Peter Huewe <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Marcel Selhorst <[email protected]>
[ Also removed the silly "* sizeof(u8)". If that isn't 1, we have way
deeper problems than a simple multiplication can fix. - Linus ]
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
---
drivers/char/tpm/tpm.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/drivers/char/tpm/tpm.c
+++ b/drivers/char/tpm/tpm.c
@@ -969,7 +969,7 @@ int tpm_open(struct inode *inode, struct
return -EBUSY;
}
- chip->data_buffer = kmalloc(TPM_BUFSIZE * sizeof(u8), GFP_KERNEL);
+ chip->data_buffer = kzalloc(TPM_BUFSIZE, GFP_KERNEL);
if (chip->data_buffer == NULL) {
clear_bit(0, &chip->is_open);
put_device(chip->dev);
Patches currently in longterm-queue-2.6.32 which might be from
[email protected] are
/home/gregkh/linux/longterm/longterm-queue-2.6.32/queue-2.6.32/char-tpm-fix-unitialized-usage-of-data-buffer.patch
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