This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
sysfs: make sure read buffer is zeroed
to my driver-core git tree which can be found at
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core.git
in the driver-core-linus branch.
The patch will show up in the next release of the linux-next tree
(usually sometime within the next 24 hours during the week.)
The patch will hopefully also be merged in Linus's tree for the
next -rc kernel release.
If you have any questions about this process, please let me know.
>From f5c16f29bf5e57ba4051fc7785ba7f035f798c71 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 19 May 2014 15:52:10 -0400
Subject: sysfs: make sure read buffer is zeroed
13c589d5b0ac ("sysfs: use seq_file when reading regular files")
switched sysfs from custom read implementation to seq_file to enable
later transition to kernfs. After the change, the buffer passed to
->show() is acquired through seq_get_buf(); unfortunately, this
introduces a subtle behavior change. Before the commit, the buffer
passed to ->show() was always zero as it was allocated using
get_zeroed_page(). Because seq_file doesn't clear buffers on
allocation and neither does seq_get_buf(), after the commit, depending
on the behavior of ->show(), we may end up exposing uninitialized data
to userland thus possibly altering userland visible behavior and
leaking information.
Fix it by explicitly clearing the buffer.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reported-by: Ron <ron@xxxxxxxxxx>
Fixes: 13c589d5b0ac ("sysfs: use seq_file when reading regular files")
Cc: stable <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> # 3.13+
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/sysfs/file.c | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/fs/sysfs/file.c b/fs/sysfs/file.c
index 28cc1acd5439..e9ef59b3abb1 100644
--- a/fs/sysfs/file.c
+++ b/fs/sysfs/file.c
@@ -47,12 +47,13 @@ static int sysfs_kf_seq_show(struct seq_file *sf, void *v)
ssize_t count;
char *buf;
- /* acquire buffer and ensure that it's >= PAGE_SIZE */
+ /* acquire buffer and ensure that it's >= PAGE_SIZE and clear */
count = seq_get_buf(sf, &buf);
if (count < PAGE_SIZE) {
seq_commit(sf, -1);
return 0;
}
+ memset(buf, 0, PAGE_SIZE);
/*
* Invoke show(). Control may reach here via seq file lseek even
--
2.0.0.rc3.2.g998f840
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