This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
fanotify: info leak in copy_event_to_user()
to the 3.10-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
fanotify-info-leak-in-copy_event_to_user.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.10 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From de1e0c40aceb9d5bff09c3a3b97b2f1b178af53f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2013 15:59:40 -0700
Subject: fanotify: info leak in copy_event_to_user()
From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>
commit de1e0c40aceb9d5bff09c3a3b97b2f1b178af53f upstream.
The ->reserved field isn't cleared so we leak one byte of stack
information to userspace.
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Eric Paris <eparis@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify_user.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
--- a/fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify_user.c
+++ b/fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify_user.c
@@ -122,6 +122,7 @@ static int fill_event_metadata(struct fs
metadata->event_len = FAN_EVENT_METADATA_LEN;
metadata->metadata_len = FAN_EVENT_METADATA_LEN;
metadata->vers = FANOTIFY_METADATA_VERSION;
+ metadata->reserved = 0;
metadata->mask = event->mask & FAN_ALL_OUTGOING_EVENTS;
metadata->pid = pid_vnr(event->tgid);
if (unlikely(event->mask & FAN_Q_OVERFLOW))
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx are
queue-3.10/fanotify-info-leak-in-copy_event_to_user.patch
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