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| author | Tejun Heo | 2014-05-19 15:52:10 -0400 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman | 2014-05-20 10:15:53 +0900 |
| commit | f5c16f29bf5e57ba4051fc7785ba7f035f798c71 (patch) | |
| tree | c7dadc302a01d7837ffb437a0d46618111aaf3a9 /fs | |
| parent | 555724a831b4a146e7bdf16ecc989cda032b076d (diff) | |
sysfs: make sure read buffer is zeroed
13c589d5b0ac ("sysfs: use seq_file when reading regular files")
switched sysfs from custom read implementation to seq_file to enable
later transition to kernfs. After the change, the buffer passed to
->show() is acquired through seq_get_buf(); unfortunately, this
introduces a subtle behavior change. Before the commit, the buffer
passed to ->show() was always zero as it was allocated using
get_zeroed_page(). Because seq_file doesn't clear buffers on
allocation and neither does seq_get_buf(), after the commit, depending
on the behavior of ->show(), we may end up exposing uninitialized data
to userland thus possibly altering userland visible behavior and
leaking information.
Fix it by explicitly clearing the buffer.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reported-by: Ron <ron@debian.org>
Fixes: 13c589d5b0ac ("sysfs: use seq_file when reading regular files")
Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 3.13+
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs')
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/sysfs/file.c | 3 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/fs/sysfs/file.c b/fs/sysfs/file.c index 28cc1acd5439..e9ef59b3abb1 100644 --- a/fs/sysfs/file.c +++ b/fs/sysfs/file.c @@ -47,12 +47,13 @@ static int sysfs_kf_seq_show(struct seq_file *sf, void *v) ssize_t count; char *buf; - /* acquire buffer and ensure that it's >= PAGE_SIZE */ + /* acquire buffer and ensure that it's >= PAGE_SIZE and clear */ count = seq_get_buf(sf, &buf); if (count < PAGE_SIZE) { seq_commit(sf, -1); return 0; } + memset(buf, 0, PAGE_SIZE); /* * Invoke show(). Control may reach here via seq file lseek even |