Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754720AbaF3Max (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Jun 2014 08:30:53 -0400 Received: from ip4-83-240-18-248.cust.nbox.cz ([83.240.18.248]:53045 "EHLO ip4-83-240-18-248.cust.nbox.cz" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754560AbaF3Mat (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Jun 2014 08:30:49 -0400 From: Jiri Slaby To: stable@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "Nicholas A. Bellinger" , Jorge Daniel Sequeira Matias , Jiri Slaby Subject: [PATCH 3.12 157/181] target: Explicitly clear ramdisk_mcp backend pages Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2014 13:52:58 +0200 Message-Id: <675739cd78efd1d6e32199add0cdc64f8cb0ac96.1404128998.git.jslaby@suse.cz> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.0.0 In-Reply-To: <61844d8e25eb8899b0836afa9796fa239db80f1f.1404128997.git.jslaby@suse.cz> References: <61844d8e25eb8899b0836afa9796fa239db80f1f.1404128997.git.jslaby@suse.cz> In-Reply-To: References: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: "Nicholas A. Bellinger" 3.12-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. =============== [Note that a different patch to address the same issue went in during v3.15-rc1 (commit 4442dc8a), but includes a bunch of other changes that don't strictly apply to fixing the bug] This patch changes rd_allocate_sgl_table() to explicitly clear ramdisk_mcp backend memory pages by passing __GFP_ZERO into alloc_pages(). This addresses a potential security issue where reading from a ramdisk_mcp could return sensitive information, and follows what >= v3.15 does to explicitly clear ramdisk_mcp memory at backend device initialization time. Reported-by: Jorge Daniel Sequeira Matias Cc: Jorge Daniel Sequeira Matias Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby --- drivers/target/target_core_rd.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/target/target_core_rd.c b/drivers/target/target_core_rd.c index 131327ac7f5b..9f6bedecda6e 100644 --- a/drivers/target/target_core_rd.c +++ b/drivers/target/target_core_rd.c @@ -179,7 +179,7 @@ static int rd_build_device_space(struct rd_dev *rd_dev) - 1; for (j = 0; j < sg_per_table; j++) { - pg = alloc_pages(GFP_KERNEL, 0); + pg = alloc_pages(GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_ZERO, 0); if (!pg) { pr_err("Unable to allocate scatterlist" " pages for struct rd_dev_sg_table\n"); -- 2.0.0 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/