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authorJonathan Salwan <jonathan.salwan@gmail.com>2013-07-03 15:01:13 -0700
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2013-07-13 11:39:17 -0700
commit07a24e531be911e4ae6e43c472b353ba775f1e22 (patch)
tree3c208ef1894bdaeeb4abb385fc58ae040285b7df /drivers
parent4e94a75e20addc7086627ceab0d1c90f3b27a205 (diff)
drivers/cdrom/cdrom.c: use kzalloc() for failing hardware
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.carpenter@oracle.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Jonathan Salwan <jonathan.salwan@gmail.com> Cc: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers')
-rw-r--r--drivers/cdrom/cdrom.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/cdrom/cdrom.c b/drivers/cdrom/cdrom.c
index d620b4495745..8a3aff724d98 100644
--- a/drivers/cdrom/cdrom.c
+++ b/drivers/cdrom/cdrom.c
@@ -2882,7 +2882,7 @@ static noinline int mmc_ioctl_cdrom_read_data(struct cdrom_device_info *cdi,
if (lba < 0)
return -EINVAL;
- cgc->buffer = kmalloc(blocksize, GFP_KERNEL);
+ cgc->buffer = kzalloc(blocksize, GFP_KERNEL);
if (cgc->buffer == NULL)
return -ENOMEM;