From: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Hi Greg,
Please apply the following patch to stable, as it addresses a potential
security issue as reported by Jorge.
Note that a different patch to address the same issue went in during
v3.15-rc1 (commit 4442dc8a), but includes a bunch of other changes that
don't strictly apply to fixing the bug.
This is a one-liner that addresses the bug for all <= v3.14 versions.
Please apply.
Thanks,
--nab
-------------------------------------------------------------------
This patch changes rd_allocate_sgl_table() to explicitly clear
ramdisk_mcp backend memory pages by passing __GFP_ZERO into
alloc_pages().
This addresses a potential security issue where reading from a
ramdisk_mcp could return sensitive information, and follows what
>= v3.15 does to explicitly clear ramdisk_mcp memory at backend
device initialization time.
Reported-by: Jorge Daniel Sequeira Matias <jdsm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Jorge Daniel Sequeira Matias <jdsm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/target/target_core_rd.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/target/target_core_rd.c b/drivers/target/target_core_rd.c
index b920db3..7b331b9 100644
--- a/drivers/target/target_core_rd.c
+++ b/drivers/target/target_core_rd.c
@@ -158,7 +158,7 @@ static int rd_allocate_sgl_table(struct rd_dev *rd_dev, struct rd_dev_sg_table *
- 1;
for (j = 0; j < sg_per_table; j++) {
- pg = alloc_pages(GFP_KERNEL, 0);
+ pg = alloc_pages(GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_ZERO, 0);
if (!pg) {
pr_err("Unable to allocate scatterlist"
" pages for struct rd_dev_sg_table\n");
--
1.8.5.3
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