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staging: alarm-dev: information leak in alarm_compat_ioctl()

If we pass an invalid clock type then "ts" is never set.  We need to
check for errors earlier, otherwise we end up passing uninitialized
stack data to userspace.

Reported-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Dan Carpenter 12 years ago
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1 changed files with 3 additions and 1 deletions
  1. 3 1
      drivers/staging/android/alarm-dev.c

+ 3 - 1
drivers/staging/android/alarm-dev.c

@@ -297,6 +297,8 @@ static long alarm_compat_ioctl(struct file *file, unsigned int cmd,
 	}
 
 	rv = alarm_do_ioctl(file, cmd, &ts);
+	if (rv)
+		return rv;
 
 	switch (ANDROID_ALARM_BASE_CMD(cmd)) {
 	case ANDROID_ALARM_GET_TIME(0): /* NOTE: we modified cmd above */
@@ -305,7 +307,7 @@ static long alarm_compat_ioctl(struct file *file, unsigned int cmd,
 		break;
 	}
 
-	return rv;
+	return 0;
 }
 #endif