This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    rtnl: fix info leak on RTM_GETLINK request for VF devices

to the 3.8-stable tree which can be found at:
    
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     rtnl-fix-info-leak-on-rtm_getlink-request-for-vf-devices.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.8 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <[email protected]> know about it.


>From 322aa953dd5565d1029a18d5bda0bd25a0dbb4bb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mathias Krause <[email protected]>
Date: Sat, 9 Mar 2013 05:52:20 +0000
Subject: rtnl: fix info leak on RTM_GETLINK request for VF devices


From: Mathias Krause <[email protected]>

[ Upstream commit 84d73cd3fb142bf1298a8c13fd4ca50fd2432372 ]

Initialize the mac address buffer with 0 as the driver specific function
will probably not fill the whole buffer. In fact, all in-kernel drivers
fill only ETH_ALEN of the MAX_ADDR_LEN bytes, i.e. 6 of the 32 possible
bytes. Therefore we currently leak 26 bytes of stack memory to userland
via the netlink interface.

Signed-off-by: Mathias Krause <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
---
 net/core/rtnetlink.c |    1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

--- a/net/core/rtnetlink.c
+++ b/net/core/rtnetlink.c
@@ -976,6 +976,7 @@ static int rtnl_fill_ifinfo(struct sk_bu
                         * report anything.
                         */
                        ivi.spoofchk = -1;
+                       memset(ivi.mac, 0, sizeof(ivi.mac));
                        if (dev->netdev_ops->ndo_get_vf_config(dev, i, &ivi))
                                break;
                        vf_mac.vf =


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-3.8/bridge-fix-mdb-info-leaks.patch
queue-3.8/dcbnl-fix-various-netlink-info-leaks.patch
queue-3.8/rtnl-fix-info-leak-on-rtm_getlink-request-for-vf-devices.patch
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