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authorJ. Bruce Fields <[email protected]>2007-10-21 16:41:38 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <[email protected]>2007-10-22 08:13:18 -0700
commit321bcf92163038e2b96fd3bf9bc29f755c81d9ef (patch)
tree68a1e6b659cac5ffdadb4b7412fa5b7a4244541b /include/linux
parentb68680e4731abbd78863063aaa0dca2a6d8cc723 (diff)
dcache: don't expose uninitialized memory in /proc/<pid>/fd/<fd>
Well, it's not especially important that target->d_iname get the contents of dentry->d_iname, but it's important that it get initialized with *something*, otherwise we're just exposing some random piece of memory to anyone who reads the link at /proc/<pid>/fd/<fd> for the deleted file, when it's still held open by someone. I've run a test program that copies a short (<36 character) name ontop of a long (>=36 character) name and see that the first time I run it, without this patch, I get unpredicatable results out of /proc/<pid>/fd/<fd>. Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <[email protected]> Cc: Al Viro <[email protected]> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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