al_hreq is copied from userland. If al_hreq.buflen is not properly aligned then xfs_attr_list will ignore the last bytes of kbuf. These bytes are unitialized. It leads to leaking of contents of kernel stack memory. Signed-off-by: Vasiliy Kulikov <segooon@xxxxxxxxx> --- Compile tested. fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_ioctl.c | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_ioctl.c b/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_ioctl.c index 2ea238f..ad442d9 100644 --- a/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_ioctl.c +++ b/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_ioctl.c @@ -416,7 +416,7 @@ xfs_attrlist_by_handle( if (IS_ERR(dentry)) return PTR_ERR(dentry); - kbuf = kmalloc(al_hreq.buflen, GFP_KERNEL); + kbuf = kzalloc(al_hreq.buflen, GFP_KERNEL); if (!kbuf) goto out_dput; -- 1.7.0.4 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kernel-janitors" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
