[ 3.5.y.z extended stable ] Patch "block: do not pass disk names as format strings" has been added to staging queue

[Luis Henriques]

This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    block: do not pass disk names as format strings

to the linux-3.5.y-queue branch of the 3.5.y.z extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.5.y-queue

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.5.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Luis

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>From 3c89a0f0659d8abc331b35a5b3d7b76a837eb7e6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kees Cook <keescook at chromium.org>
Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2013 15:01:14 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] block: do not pass disk names as format strings

commit ffc8b30866879ed9ba62bd0a86fecdbd51cd3d19 upstream.

Disk names may contain arbitrary strings, so they must not be
interpreted as format strings.  It seems that only md allows arbitrary
strings to be used for disk names, but this could allow for a local
memory corruption from uid 0 into ring 0.

CVE-2013-2851

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook at chromium.org>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe at kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm at linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds at linux-foundation.org>
[ luis: backported to 3.5: adjusted context ]
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 block/genhd.c              | 2 +-
 drivers/block/nbd.c        | 3 ++-
 drivers/scsi/osd/osd_uld.c | 2 +-
 3 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/block/genhd.c b/block/genhd.c
index 60108d9..d815a0f 100644
--- a/block/genhd.c
+++ b/block/genhd.c
@@ -518,7 +518,7 @@ static void register_disk(struct gendisk *disk)

 	ddev->parent = disk->driverfs_dev;

-	dev_set_name(ddev, disk->disk_name);
+	dev_set_name(ddev, "%s", disk->disk_name);

 	/* delay uevents, until we scanned partition table */
 	dev_set_uevent_suppress(ddev, 1);
diff --git a/drivers/block/nbd.c b/drivers/block/nbd.c
index 7f25e24..e1d49fc 100644
--- a/drivers/block/nbd.c
+++ b/drivers/block/nbd.c
@@ -675,7 +675,8 @@ static int __nbd_ioctl(struct block_device *bdev, struct nbd_device *nbd,

 		mutex_unlock(&nbd->tx_lock);

-		thread = kthread_create(nbd_thread, nbd, nbd->disk->disk_name);
+		thread = kthread_create(nbd_thread, nbd, "%s",
+					nbd->disk->disk_name);
 		if (IS_ERR(thread)) {
 			mutex_lock(&nbd->tx_lock);
 			return PTR_ERR(thread);
diff --git a/drivers/scsi/osd/osd_uld.c b/drivers/scsi/osd/osd_uld.c
index d4ed9eb..caac1b2 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/osd/osd_uld.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/osd/osd_uld.c
@@ -465,7 +465,7 @@ static int osd_probe(struct device *dev)
 	oud->class_dev.class = &osd_uld_class;
 	oud->class_dev.parent = dev;
 	oud->class_dev.release = __remove;
-	error = dev_set_name(&oud->class_dev, disk->disk_name);
+	error = dev_set_name(&oud->class_dev, "%s", disk->disk_name);
 	if (error) {
 		OSD_ERR("dev_set_name failed => %d\n", error);
 		goto err_put_cdev;
--
1.8.1.2