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xfrm_user: fix info leak in xfrm_notify_sa()

The memory reserved to dump the ID of the xfrm state includes a padding
byte in struct xfrm_usersa_id added by the compiler for alignment. To
prevent the heap info leak, memset(0) the whole struct before filling
it.

Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Fixes: 0603eac0d6b7 ("[IPSEC]: Add XFRMA_SA/XFRMA_POLICY for delete notification")
Signed-off-by: Mathias Krause <minipli@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com>
Mathias Krause 8 years ago
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      net/xfrm/xfrm_user.c

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net/xfrm/xfrm_user.c

@@ -2715,6 +2715,7 @@ static int xfrm_notify_sa(struct xfrm_state *x, const struct km_event *c)
 		struct nlattr *attr;
 
 		id = nlmsg_data(nlh);
+		memset(id, 0, sizeof(*id));
 		memcpy(&id->daddr, &x->id.daddr, sizeof(id->daddr));
 		id->spi = x->id.spi;
 		id->family = x->props.family;