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@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
---
v2: split patches
---
fs/xfs/xfs_itable.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_itable.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_itable.c
index 2a6d9b1..26d67ce 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/xfs_itable.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_itable.c
@@ -583,7 +583,7 @@ 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;
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