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compat: fix 4-byte infoleak via uninitialized struct field

Commit 3a4d44b61625 ("ntp: Move adjtimex related compat syscalls to
native counterparts") removed the memset() in compat_get_timex(). Since
then, the compat adjtimex syscall can invoke do_adjtimex() with an
uninitialized ->tai.

If do_adjtimex() doesn't write to ->tai (e.g. because the arguments are
invalid), compat_put_timex() then copies the uninitialized ->tai field
to userspace.

Fix it by adding the memset() back.

Fixes: 3a4d44b61625 ("ntp: Move adjtimex related compat syscalls to native counterparts")
Signed-off-by: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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Jann Horn and committed by
Linus Torvalds
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kernel/compat.c
··· 34 34 { 35 35 struct compat_timex tx32; 36 36 37 + memset(txc, 0, sizeof(struct timex)); 37 38 if (copy_from_user(&tx32, utp, sizeof(struct compat_timex))) 38 39 return -EFAULT; 39 40