linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] xfs: prevent leaking uninitialized stack memory in FSGEOMETRY

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Date:	Tue, 15 Feb 2011 07:39:53 +0800
From:	Eugene Teo <eugeneteo@...nel.sg>
To:	Dan Rosenberg <drosenberg@...curity.com>
Cc:	Dave Chinner <david@...morbit.com>, aelder@....com,
	xfs-masters@....sgi.com, xfs@....sgi.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...nel.org,
	security@...nel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] xfs: prevent leaking uninitialized stack memory in FSGEOMETRY_V1

On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 9:45 PM, Dan Rosenberg <drosenberg@...curity.com> wrote:
> The FSGEOMETRY_V1 ioctl (and its compat equivalent) calls out to
> xfs_fs_geometry() with a version number of 3.  This code path does not
> fill in the logsunit member of the passed xfs_fsop_geom_t, leading to
> the leaking of four bytes of uninitialized stack data to potentially
> unprivileged callers.
>
> v2 switches to memset() to avoid future issues if structure members
> change, on suggestion of Dave Chinner.
>
> Signed-off-by: Dan Rosenberg <drosenberg@...curity.com>

Reviewed-by: Eugene Teo <eugeneteo@...nel.org>

> ---
>  fs/xfs/xfs_fsops.c |    3 +++
>  1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_fsops.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_fsops.c
> index cec89dd..85668ef 100644
> --- a/fs/xfs/xfs_fsops.c
> +++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_fsops.c
> @@ -53,6 +53,9 @@ xfs_fs_geometry(
>        xfs_fsop_geom_t         *geo,
>        int                     new_version)
>  {
> +
> +       memset(geo, 0, sizeof(*geo));
> +
>        geo->blocksize = mp->m_sb.sb_blocksize;
>        geo->rtextsize = mp->m_sb.sb_rextsize;
>        geo->agblocks = mp->m_sb.sb_agblocks;
>
>
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