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HID: core: Avoid uninitialized buffer access
authorRichard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
Fri, 18 Sep 2015 23:31:33 +0000 (16:31 -0700)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Fri, 29 Jan 2016 05:57:15 +0000 (21:57 -0800)
commit 79b568b9d0c7c5d81932f4486d50b38efdd6da6d upstream.

hid_connect adds various strings to the buffer but they're all
conditional. You can find circumstances where nothing would be written
to it but the kernel will still print the supposedly empty buffer with
printk. This leads to corruption on the console/in the logs.

Ensure buf is initialized to an empty string.

Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
[dvhart: Initialize string to "" rather than assign buf[0] = NULL;]
Cc: Jiri Kosina <jikos@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-input@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Darren Hart <dvhart@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/hid/hid-core.c

index d92c7d9b959a52b463965407fb505b3aacc6cb90..51f18bf75fa60927baa813dbb8e094c53dc34ca0 100644 (file)
@@ -1506,7 +1506,7 @@ int hid_connect(struct hid_device *hdev, unsigned int connect_mask)
                "Multi-Axis Controller"
        };
        const char *type, *bus;
-       char buf[64];
+       char buf[64] = "";
        unsigned int i;
        int len;
        int ret;