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xfrm: clear trailing padding in build_polexpire()
authorYasuaki Torimaru <yasuakitorimaru@gmail.com>
Thu, 26 Mar 2026 05:58:00 +0000 (14:58 +0900)
committerSteffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com>
Mon, 30 Mar 2026 05:47:32 +0000 (07:47 +0200)
commit71a98248c63c535eaa4d4c22f099b68d902006d0
treec4e5d02e8794d98f5e24b311911309fc5075a484
parentc4ea7d8907cf72b259bf70bd8c2e791e1c4ff70f
xfrm: clear trailing padding in build_polexpire()

build_expire() clears the trailing padding bytes of struct
xfrm_user_expire after setting the hard field via memset_after(),
but the analogous function build_polexpire() does not do this for
struct xfrm_user_polexpire.

The padding bytes after the __u8 hard field are left
uninitialized from the heap allocation, and are then sent to
userspace via netlink multicast to XFRMNLGRP_EXPIRE listeners,
leaking kernel heap memory contents.

Add the missing memset_after() call, matching build_expire().

Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Yasuaki Torimaru <yasuakitorimaru@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
Signed-off-by: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com>
net/xfrm/xfrm_user.c