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[03/25] xfs: fix kernel memory exposure problems

Message ID 20170603131836.26661-4-hch@lst.de (mailing list archive)
State Accepted, archived
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Christoph Hellwig June 3, 2017, 1:18 p.m. UTC 
From: "Darrick J. Wong" <darrick.wong@oracle.com>

commit bf9216f922612d2db7666aae01e65064da2ffb3a upstream.

Fix a memory exposure problems in inumbers where we allocate an array of
structures with holes, fail to zero the holes, then blindly copy the
kernel memory contents (junk and all) into userspace.

Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
---
 fs/xfs/xfs_itable.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
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diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_itable.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_itable.c
index 66e881790c17..d8a77dbf4e3a 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/xfs_itable.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_itable.c
@@ -585,7 +585,7 @@  xfs_inumbers(
 		return error;
 
 	bcount = MIN(left, (int)(PAGE_SIZE / sizeof(*buffer)));
-	buffer = kmem_alloc(bcount * sizeof(*buffer), KM_SLEEP);
+	buffer = kmem_zalloc(bcount * sizeof(*buffer), KM_SLEEP);
 	do {
 		struct xfs_inobt_rec_incore	r;
 		int				stat;