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Patch "video: fbdev: aty: do not leak uninitialized padding in clk to userspace" has been added to the 4.13-stable tree

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This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

video: fbdev: aty: do not leak uninitialized padding in clk to userspace

to the 4.13-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
video-fbdev-aty-do-not-leak-uninitialized-padding-in-clk-to-userspace.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.13 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.

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From 8e75f7a7a00461ef6d91797a60b606367f6e344d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001

From: Vladis Dronov <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 4 Sep 2017 16:00:50 +0200
Subject: video: fbdev: aty: do not leak uninitialized padding in clk to userspace

From: Vladis Dronov <[email protected]>

commit 8e75f7a7a00461ef6d91797a60b606367f6e344d upstream.

'clk' is copied to a userland with padding byte(s) after 'vclk_post_div' field unitialized, leaking data from the stack. Fix this ensuring all of 'clk' is initialized to zero.

References: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/pull/441

---
 drivers/video/fbdev/aty/atyfb_base.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
drivers/video/fbdev/aty/atyfb_base.c +1 -1
@@ -1855,7 +1855,7 @@ static int atyfb_ioctl(struct fb_info *i
 #if defined(DEBUG) && defined(CONFIG_FB_ATY_CT)
 	case ATYIO_CLKR:
 		if (M64_HAS(INTEGRATED)) {
-			struct atyclk clk;
+			struct atyclk clk = { 0 };
 			union aty_pll *pll = &par->pll;
 			u32 dsp_config = pll->ct.dsp_config;
 			u32 dsp_on_off = pll->ct.dsp_on_off;

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-4.13/nl80211-check-for-the-required-netlink-attributes-presence.patch queue-4.13/video-fbdev-aty-do-not-leak-uninitialized-padding-in-clk-to-userspace.patch