[PATCH 4.4 34/56] fs/xattr.c: zero out memory copied to userspace in getxattr

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

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From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx>

commit 81be3dee96346fbe08c31be5ef74f03f6b63cf68 upstream.

getxattr uses vmalloc to allocate memory if kzalloc fails.  This is
filled by vfs_getxattr and then copied to the userspace.  vmalloc,
however, doesn't zero out the memory so if the specific implementation
of the xattr handler is sloppy we can theoretically expose a kernel
memory.  There is no real sign this is really the case but let's make
sure this will not happen and use vzalloc instead.

Fixes: 779302e67835 ("fs/xattr.c:getxattr(): improve handling of allocation failures")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170306103327.2766-1-mhocko@xxxxxxxxxx
Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reported-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

---
 fs/xattr.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/fs/xattr.c
+++ b/fs/xattr.c
@@ -442,7 +442,7 @@ getxattr(struct dentry *d, const char __
 			size = XATTR_SIZE_MAX;
 		kvalue = kzalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NOWARN);
 		if (!kvalue) {
-			vvalue = vmalloc(size);
+			vvalue = vzalloc(size);
 			if (!vvalue)
 				return -ENOMEM;
 			kvalue = vvalue;





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