3.10-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Jonathan Salwan <jonathan.sal...@gmail.com>
commit 542db01579fbb7ea7d1f7bb9ddcef1559df660b2 upstream.
In drivers/cdrom/cdrom.c mmc_ioctl_cdrom_read_data() allocates a memory
area with kmalloc in line 2885.
2885 cgc->buffer = kmalloc(blocksize, GFP_KERNEL);
2886 if (cgc->buffer == NULL)
2887 return -ENOMEM;
In line 2908 we can find the copy_to_user function:
2908 if (!ret && copy_to_user(arg, cgc->buffer, blocksize))
The cgc->buffer is never cleaned and initialized before this function.
If ret = 0 with the previous basic block, it's possible to display some
memory bytes in kernel space from userspace.
When we read a block from the disk it normally fills the ->buffer but if
the drive is malfunctioning there is a chance that it would only be
partially filled. The result is an leak information to userspace.
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpen...@oracle.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <ax...@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <a...@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torva...@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Jonathan Salwan <jonathan.sal...@gmail.com>
Cc: Luis Henriques <luis.henriq...@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gre...@linuxfoundation.org>
---
drivers/cdrom/cdrom.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/drivers/cdrom/cdrom.c
+++ b/drivers/cdrom/cdrom.c
@@ -2882,7 +2882,7 @@ static noinline int mmc_ioctl_cdrom_read
if (lba < 0)
return -EINVAL;
- cgc->buffer = kmalloc(blocksize, GFP_KERNEL);
+ cgc->buffer = kzalloc(blocksize, GFP_KERNEL);
if (cgc->buffer == NULL)
return -ENOMEM;
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