From b6878d9e03043695dbf3fa1caa6dfc09db225b16 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Benjamin Randazzo Date: Sat, 25 Jul 2015 16:36:50 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] md: use kzalloc() when bitmap is disabled In drivers/md/md.c get_bitmap_file() uses kmalloc() for creating a mdu_bitmap_file_t called "file". 5769 file = kmalloc(sizeof(*file), GFP_NOIO); 5770 if (!file) 5771 return -ENOMEM; This structure is copied to user space at the end of the function. 5786 if (err == 0 && 5787 copy_to_user(arg, file, sizeof(*file))) 5788 err = -EFAULT But if bitmap is disabled only the first byte of "file" is initialized with zero, so it's possible to read some bytes (up to 4095) of kernel space memory from user space. This is an information leak. 5775 /* bitmap disabled, zero the first byte and copy out */ 5776 if (!mddev->bitmap_info.file) 5777 file->pathname[0] = '\0'; Signed-off-by: Benjamin Randazzo Signed-off-by: NeilBrown --- drivers/md/md.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/md/md.c b/drivers/md/md.c index 0c2a4e8b873c..e25f00f0138a 100644 --- a/drivers/md/md.c +++ b/drivers/md/md.c @@ -5759,7 +5759,7 @@ static int get_bitmap_file(struct mddev *mddev, void __user * arg) char *ptr; int err; - file = kmalloc(sizeof(*file), GFP_NOIO); + file = kzalloc(sizeof(*file), GFP_NOIO); if (!file) return -ENOMEM; -- GitLab