3.16.85-rc1 review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
------------------ From: Alexander Potapenko <[email protected]> commit 1d605416fb7175e1adf094251466caa52093b413 upstream. KMSAN reported uninitialized data being written to disk when dumping core. As a result, several kilobytes of kmalloc memory may be written to the core file and then read by a non-privileged user. Reported-by: sam <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Alexander Potapenko <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]> Acked-by: Kees Cook <[email protected]> Cc: Al Viro <[email protected]> Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <[email protected]> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Link: https://github.com/google/kmsan/issues/76 Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]> [bwh: Backported to 3.16: adjust context] Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <[email protected]> --- fs/binfmt_elf.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/fs/binfmt_elf.c +++ b/fs/binfmt_elf.c @@ -1575,7 +1575,7 @@ static int fill_thread_core_info(struct (!regset->active || regset->active(t->task, regset) > 0)) { int ret; size_t size = regset->n * regset->size; - void *data = kmalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL); + void *data = kzalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL); if (unlikely(!data)) return 0; ret = regset->get(t->task, regset,
