This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
[PATCH] target: Explicitly clear ramdisk_mcp backend pages
to the 3.4-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:
target-explicitly-clear-ramdisk_mcp-backend-pages.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.4 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From nab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fri Jun 27 17:13:41 2014
From: "Nicholas A. Bellinger" <nab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2014 20:59:52 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] target: Explicitly clear ramdisk_mcp backend pages
To: target-devel <target-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Greg-KH <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, stable <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Nicholas Bellinger <nab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Jorge Daniel Sequeira Matias <jdsm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Message-ID: <1402952392-30762-1-git-send-email-nab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
[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 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>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/target/target_core_rd.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/drivers/target/target_core_rd.c
+++ b/drivers/target/target_core_rd.c
@@ -177,7 +177,7 @@ static int rd_build_device_space(struct
- 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");
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from nab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are
queue-3.4/target-explicitly-clear-ramdisk_mcp-backend-pages.patch
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