3.8.13.28 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Nicholas Bellinger <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>
Reference: CVE-2014-4027
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
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 0457de3..51968ed 100644
--- a/drivers/target/target_core_rd.c
+++ b/drivers/target/target_core_rd.c
@@ -174,7 +174,7 @@ static int rd_build_device_space(struct rd_dev *rd_dev)
- 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");
--
1.9.1
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