From: Pavel Roskin The orinoco driver can send uninitialized data exposing random pieces of the system memory. This happens because data is not padded with zeroes when its length needs to be increased. Reported by Meder Kydyraliev Signed-off-by: Pavel Roskin Signed-off-by: Chris Wright Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- drivers/net/wireless/orinoco.c | 14 +++++++++----- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) --- linux-2.6.13.y.orig/drivers/net/wireless/orinoco.c +++ linux-2.6.13.y/drivers/net/wireless/orinoco.c @@ -502,9 +502,14 @@ static int orinoco_xmit(struct sk_buff * return 0; } - /* Length of the packet body */ - /* FIXME: what if the skb is smaller than this? */ - len = max_t(int,skb->len - ETH_HLEN, ETH_ZLEN - ETH_HLEN); + /* Check packet length, pad short packets, round up odd length */ + len = max_t(int, ALIGN(skb->len, 2), ETH_ZLEN); + if (skb->len < len) { + skb = skb_padto(skb, len); + if (skb == NULL) + goto fail; + } + len -= ETH_HLEN; eh = (struct ethhdr *)skb->data; @@ -556,8 +561,7 @@ static int orinoco_xmit(struct sk_buff * p = skb->data; } - /* Round up for odd length packets */ - err = hermes_bap_pwrite(hw, USER_BAP, p, ALIGN(data_len, 2), + err = hermes_bap_pwrite(hw, USER_BAP, p, data_len, txfid, data_off); if (err) { printk(KERN_ERR "%s: Error %d writing packet to BAP\n", -- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/