From: Mathias Krause <mini...@googlemail.com>
3.12-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
===============
commit 6891c4509c792209c44ced55a60f13954cb50ef4 upstream.
If userland creates a timer without specifying a sigevent info, we'll
create one ourself, using a stack local variable. Particularly will we
use the timer ID as sival_int. But as sigev_value is a union containing
a pointer and an int, that assignment will only partially initialize
sigev_value on systems where the size of a pointer is bigger than the
size of an int. On such systems we'll copy the uninitialized stack bytes
from the timer_create() call to userland when the timer actually fires
and we're going to deliver the signal.
Initialize sigev_value with 0 to plug the stack info leak.
Found in the PaX patch, written by the PaX Team.
Fixes: 5a9fa7307285 ("posix-timers: kill ->it_sigev_signo and...")
Signed-off-by: Mathias Krause <mini...@googlemail.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <o...@redhat.com>
Cc: Brad Spengler <spen...@grsecurity.net>
Cc: PaX Team <pagee...@freemail.hu>
Link:
http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1412456799-32339-1-git-send-email-mini...@googlemail.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <t...@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jsl...@suse.cz>
---
kernel/posix-timers.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
diff --git a/kernel/posix-timers.c b/kernel/posix-timers.c
index 424c2d4265c9..77e6b83c0431 100644
--- a/kernel/posix-timers.c
+++ b/kernel/posix-timers.c
@@ -634,6 +634,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE3(timer_create, const clockid_t, which_clock,
goto out;
}
} else {
+ memset(&event.sigev_value, 0, sizeof(event.sigev_value));
event.sigev_notify = SIGEV_SIGNAL;
event.sigev_signo = SIGALRM;
event.sigev_value.sival_int = new_timer->it_id;
--
2.1.3
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