Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932585AbaGHTo2 (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Jul 2014 15:44:28 -0400 Received: from shadbolt.e.decadent.org.uk ([88.96.1.126]:54076 "EHLO shadbolt.e.decadent.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755672AbaGHTIi (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Jul 2014 15:08:38 -0400 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 From: Ben Hutchings To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org CC: akpm@linux-foundation.org, "Nicholas Bellinger" , "Jorge Daniel Sequeira Matias" Date: Tue, 08 Jul 2014 20:01:50 +0100 Message-ID: X-Mailer: LinuxStableQueue (scripts by bwh) Subject: [PATCH 3.2 116/125] target: Explicitly clear ramdisk_mcp backend pages In-Reply-To: X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 192.168.4.249 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: ben@decadent.org.uk X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on shadbolt.decadent.org.uk); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 3.2.61-rc1 review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Nicholas Bellinger Part of commit 4442dc8a92b8f9ad8ee9e7f8438f4c04c03a22dc upstream. 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: Ben Hutchings --- drivers/target/target_core_rd.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- 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 - 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"); -- 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/