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authorKees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>2013-07-03 15:01:14 -0700
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2013-07-13 11:39:17 -0700
commitc014eebac770438b946b6512f0961b0dc64ad0f6 (patch)
tree138d833e526cf747d6f2704c7131da1e651bbcc5 /block
parent179b66310e735a99c56b2a64fda5b3cbb03d3a97 (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> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'block')
-rw-r--r--block/genhd.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/block/genhd.c b/block/genhd.c
index 3c001fba80c7..5098a64374db 100644
--- a/block/genhd.c
+++ b/block/genhd.c
@@ -512,7 +512,7 @@ static 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);