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authorKees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>2013-07-03 22:01:14 +0000
committerWilly Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>2014-05-19 07:53:26 +0200
commit134cbf552295204ea9b17882580acf800b30eaff (patch)
tree0e9f6278e7ad889924dc99c6e7e6f062ad0e33a4
parentbc627cf07b1fa9e61cfe6b14ea27825ed100a126 (diff)
block: do not pass disk names as format strings
commit ffc8b30866879ed9ba62bd0a86fecdbd51cd3d19 upstream Disk names may contain arbitrary strings, so they must not be interpreted as format strings. It seems that only md allows arbitrary strings to be used for disk names, but this could allow for a local memory corruption from uid 0 into ring 0. CVE-2013-2851 Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> [jmm: Backport to 2.6.32] Signed-off-by: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
-rw-r--r--drivers/block/nbd.c4
-rw-r--r--fs/partitions/check.c2
2 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/block/nbd.c b/drivers/block/nbd.c
index 26ada4762fa3..90550ba8347a 100644
--- a/drivers/block/nbd.c
+++ b/drivers/block/nbd.c
@@ -655,7 +655,9 @@ static int __nbd_ioctl(struct block_device *bdev, struct nbd_device *lo,
mutex_unlock(&lo->tx_lock);
- thread = kthread_create(nbd_thread, lo, lo->disk->disk_name);
+ thread = kthread_create(nbd_thread, lo, "%s",
+ lo->disk->disk_name);
+
if (IS_ERR(thread)) {
mutex_lock(&lo->tx_lock);
return PTR_ERR(thread);
diff --git a/fs/partitions/check.c b/fs/partitions/check.c
index 7b685e10cbad..aa90d88118e3 100644
--- a/fs/partitions/check.c
+++ b/fs/partitions/check.c
@@ -476,7 +476,7 @@ void register_disk(struct gendisk *disk)
ddev->parent = disk->driverfs_dev;
- dev_set_name(ddev, disk->disk_name);
+ dev_set_name(ddev, "%s", disk->disk_name);
/* delay uevents, until we scanned partition table */
dev_set_uevent_suppress(ddev, 1);