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| author | Michal Hocko <[email protected]> | 2017-05-08 15:57:24 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <[email protected]> | 2017-05-08 17:15:12 -0700 |
| commit | 81be3dee96346fbe08c31be5ef74f03f6b63cf68 (patch) | |
| tree | 0da1345c2f9b956b944c442e1df062dce6d692f9 /tools/perf/scripts/python/bin | |
| parent | 847f716f9ec2c61f57690c871a307f1349d472d0 (diff) | |
fs/xattr.c: zero out memory copied to userspace in getxattr
getxattr uses vmalloc to allocate memory if kzalloc fails. This is
filled by vfs_getxattr and then copied to the userspace. vmalloc,
however, doesn't zero out the memory so if the specific implementation
of the xattr handler is sloppy we can theoretically expose a kernel
memory. There is no real sign this is really the case but let's make
sure this will not happen and use vzalloc instead.
Fixes: 779302e67835 ("fs/xattr.c:getxattr(): improve handling of allocation failures")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Acked-by: Kees Cook <[email protected]>
Reported-by: Vlastimil Babka <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]> [3.6+]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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