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| author | Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> | 2017-05-08 15:57:24 -0700 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> | 2017-05-20 14:27:01 +0200 |
| commit | eb04a7344c83fdbed0a910d7e1dd31f82606d6ec (patch) | |
| tree | c124927fbaa8981eeadf957900ca9155c997f939 /tools/perf/scripts/python | |
| parent | a3e6be0e9447c07e874fd8662026d7ae5c823757 (diff) | |
fs/xattr.c: zero out memory copied to userspace in getxattr
commit 81be3dee96346fbe08c31be5ef74f03f6b63cf68 upstream.
getxattr uses vmalloc to allocate memory if kzalloc fails. This is
filled by vfs_getxattr and then copied to the userspace. vmalloc,
however, doesn't zero out the memory so if the specific implementation
of the xattr handler is sloppy we can theoretically expose a kernel
memory. There is no real sign this is really the case but let's make
sure this will not happen and use vzalloc instead.
Fixes: 779302e67835 ("fs/xattr.c:getxattr(): improve handling of allocation failures")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170306103327.2766-1-mhocko@kernel.org
Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Reported-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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