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

    Staging: bcm: info leak in ioctl

to the 3.11-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:
     staging-bcm-info-leak-in-ioctl.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.11 subdirectory.

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


>From 8d1e72250c847fa96498ec029891de4dc638a5ba Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Dan Carpenter <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2013 23:01:11 +0300
Subject: Staging: bcm: info leak in ioctl

From: Dan Carpenter <[email protected]>

commit 8d1e72250c847fa96498ec029891de4dc638a5ba upstream.

The DevInfo.u32Reserved[] array isn't initialized so it leaks kernel
information to user space.

Reported-by: Nico Golde <[email protected]>
Reported-by: Fabian Yamaguchi <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>

---
 drivers/staging/bcm/Bcmchar.c |    1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

--- a/drivers/staging/bcm/Bcmchar.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/bcm/Bcmchar.c
@@ -1960,6 +1960,7 @@ cntrlEnd:
 
                BCM_DEBUG_PRINT(Adapter, DBG_TYPE_OTHERS, OSAL_DBG, 
DBG_LVL_ALL, "Called IOCTL_BCM_GET_DEVICE_DRIVER_INFO\n");
 
+               memset(&DevInfo, 0, sizeof(DevInfo));
                DevInfo.MaxRDMBufferSize = BUFFER_4K;
                DevInfo.u32DSDStartOffset = EEPROM_CALPARAM_START;
                DevInfo.u32RxAlignmentCorrection = 0;


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

queue-3.11/staging-wlags49_h2-buffer-overflow-setting-station-name.patch
queue-3.11/staging-ozwpan-prevent-overflow-in-oz_cdev_write.patch
queue-3.11/aacraid-missing-capable-check-in-compat-ioctl.patch
queue-3.11/staging-bcm-info-leak-in-ioctl.patch
queue-3.11/uml-check-length-in-exitcode_proc_write.patch
queue-3.11/staging-sb105x-info-leak-in-mp_get_count.patch
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