[PATCH 3.8 4/4] floppy: don't write kernel-only members to FDRAWCMD ioctl output

Kamal Mostafa kamal at canonical.com
Tue May 6 21:13:55 UTC 2014


3.8.13.23 -stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Matthew Daley <mattd at bugfuzz.com>

commit 2145e15e0557a01b9195d1c7199a1b92cb9be81f upstream.

Do not leak kernel-only floppy_raw_cmd structure members to userspace.
This includes the linked-list pointer and the pointer to the allocated
DMA space.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Daley <mattd at bugfuzz.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds at linux-foundation.org>
References: CVE-2014-1738
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/block/floppy.c | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/block/floppy.c b/drivers/block/floppy.c
index 7ca5d3d..408111f 100644
--- a/drivers/block/floppy.c
+++ b/drivers/block/floppy.c
@@ -3053,7 +3053,10 @@ static int raw_cmd_copyout(int cmd, void __user *param,
 	int ret;
 
 	while (ptr) {
-		ret = copy_to_user(param, ptr, sizeof(*ptr));
+		struct floppy_raw_cmd cmd = *ptr;
+		cmd.next = NULL;
+		cmd.kernel_data = NULL;
+		ret = copy_to_user(param, &cmd, sizeof(cmd));
 		if (ret)
 			return -EFAULT;
 		param += sizeof(struct floppy_raw_cmd);
-- 
1.9.1





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