[c,b,x][PATCH 2/3] block: Clear kernel memory before copying to user
Marcelo Henrique Cerri
marcelo.cerri at canonical.com
Thu Jun 27 18:16:56 UTC 2019
From: Keith Busch <keith.busch at intel.com>
BugLink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1834499
If the kernel allocates a bounce buffer for user read data, this memory
needs to be cleared before copying it to the user, otherwise it may leak
kernel memory to user space.
Laurence Oberman <loberman at redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Keith Busch <keith.busch at intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe at kernel.dk>
(cherry picked from commit f3587d76da05f68098ddb1cb3c98cc6a9e8a402c)
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Henrique Cerri <marcelo.cerri at canonical.com>
---
block/bio.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
diff --git a/block/bio.c b/block/bio.c
index 2b0c3c08c0b2..b1d7e1de7b1a 100644
--- a/block/bio.c
+++ b/block/bio.c
@@ -1238,6 +1238,7 @@ struct bio *bio_copy_user_iov(struct request_queue *q,
if (ret)
goto cleanup;
} else {
+ zero_fill_bio(bio);
iov_iter_advance(iter, bio->bi_iter.bi_size);
}
--
2.20.1
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