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authorMichael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>2018-05-12 00:33:10 +0300
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2018-06-26 08:08:08 +0800
commit9681c3bdb098f6c87a0422b6b63912c1b90ad197 (patch)
treea9826b0b9019992a8ef704fffeab18e4a58fb508 /drivers/vhost
parenta875bc1c9ec116b7b2b2f15f8edc2a2ac3c51f99 (diff)
vhost: fix info leak due to uninitialized memory
commit 670ae9caaca467ea1bfd325cb2a5c98ba87f94ad upstream. struct vhost_msg within struct vhost_msg_node is copied to userspace. Unfortunately it turns out on 64 bit systems vhost_msg has padding after type which gcc doesn't initialize, leaking 4 uninitialized bytes to userspace. This padding also unfortunately means 32 bit users of this interface are broken on a 64 bit kernel which will need to be fixed separately. Fixes: CVE-2018-1118 Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Reported-by: Kevin Easton <kevin@guarana.org> Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> Reported-by: syzbot+87cfa083e727a224754b@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/vhost')
-rw-r--r--drivers/vhost/vhost.c3
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/vhost/vhost.c b/drivers/vhost/vhost.c
index c81bc4efe1a6..8b6489ae74eb 100644
--- a/drivers/vhost/vhost.c
+++ b/drivers/vhost/vhost.c
@@ -2295,6 +2295,9 @@ struct vhost_msg_node *vhost_new_msg(struct vhost_virtqueue *vq, int type)
struct vhost_msg_node *node = kmalloc(sizeof *node, GFP_KERNEL);
if (!node)
return NULL;
+
+ /* Make sure all padding within the structure is initialized. */
+ memset(&node->msg, 0, sizeof node->msg);
node->vq = vq;
node->msg.type = type;
return node;