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Date:	Sat, 25 Oct 2014 01:45:50 -0700
From:	tip-bot for Mathias Krause <tipbot@...or.com>
To:	linux-tip-commits@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	hpa@...or.com, tglx@...utronix.de, mingo@...nel.org,
	oleg@...hat.com, minipli@...glemail.com, pageexec@...email.hu,
	spender@...ecurity.net, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [tip:timers/urgent] posix-timers:
  Fix stack info leak in timer_create()

Commit-ID:  6891c4509c792209c44ced55a60f13954cb50ef4
Gitweb:     http://git.kernel.org/tip/6891c4509c792209c44ced55a60f13954cb50ef4
Author:     Mathias Krause <minipli@...glemail.com>
AuthorDate: Sat, 4 Oct 2014 23:06:39 +0200
Committer:  Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
CommitDate: Sat, 25 Oct 2014 10:43:15 +0200

posix-timers: Fix stack info leak in timer_create()

If userland creates a timer without specifying a sigevent info, we'll
create one ourself, using a stack local variable. Particularly will we
use the timer ID as sival_int. But as sigev_value is a union containing
a pointer and an int, that assignment will only partially initialize
sigev_value on systems where the size of a pointer is bigger than the
size of an int. On such systems we'll copy the uninitialized stack bytes
from the timer_create() call to userland when the timer actually fires
and we're going to deliver the signal.

Initialize sigev_value with 0 to plug the stack info leak.

Found in the PaX patch, written by the PaX Team.

Fixes: 5a9fa7307285 ("posix-timers: kill ->it_sigev_signo and...")
Signed-off-by: Mathias Krause <minipli@...glemail.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
Cc: Brad Spengler <spender@...ecurity.net>
Cc: PaX Team <pageexec@...email.hu>
Cc: <stable@...r.kernel.org>	# v2.6.28+
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1412456799-32339-1-git-send-email-minipli@googlemail.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
---
 kernel/time/posix-timers.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/kernel/time/posix-timers.c b/kernel/time/posix-timers.c
index 42b463a..31ea01f 100644
--- a/kernel/time/posix-timers.c
+++ b/kernel/time/posix-timers.c
@@ -636,6 +636,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE3(timer_create, const clockid_t, which_clock,
 			goto out;
 		}
 	} else {
+		memset(&event.sigev_value, 0, sizeof(event.sigev_value));
 		event.sigev_notify = SIGEV_SIGNAL;
 		event.sigev_signo = SIGALRM;
 		event.sigev_value.sival_int = new_timer->it_id;
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