[PATCH 3.19.y-ckt 096/155] ethtool: Use kcalloc instead of kmalloc for ethtool_get_strings

3.19.8-ckt10 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>

[ Upstream commit 077cb37fcf6f00a45f375161200b5ee0cd4e937b ]

It seems that kernel memory can leak into userspace by a
kmalloc, ethtool_get_strings, then copy_to_user sequence.

Avoid this by using kcalloc to zero fill the copied buffer.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Acked-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal@canonical.com>
---
net/core/ethtool.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/core/ethtool.c b/net/core/ethtool.c
index 550892c..0a62917 100644
--- a/net/core/ethtool.c
+++ b/net/core/ethtool.c
@@ -1272,7 +1272,7 @@ static int ethtool_get_strings(struct net_device *dev, void __user *useraddr)

gstrings.len = ret;

- data = kmalloc(gstrings.len * ETH_GSTRING_LEN, GFP_USER);
+ data = kcalloc(gstrings.len, ETH_GSTRING_LEN, GFP_USER);
if (!data)
return -ENOMEM;

--
1.9.1

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