linux-kernel - [PATCH 3.12 021/127] Fix potential infoleak in older kernels

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Date:   Fri, 25 Nov 2016 09:28:54 +0100
From:   Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.cz>
To:     stable@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.cz>
Subject: [PATCH 3.12 021/127] Fix potential infoleak in older kernels

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>

3.12-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

===============

Not upstream as it is not needed there.

So a patch something like this might be a safe way to fix the
potential infoleak in older kernels.

THIS IS UNTESTED. It's a very obvious patch, though, so if it compiles
it probably works. It just initializes the output variable with 0 in
the inline asm description, instead of doing it in the exception
handler.

It will generate slightly worse code (a few unnecessary ALU
operations), but it doesn't have any interactions with the exception
handler implementation.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.cz>
---
 arch/x86/include/asm/uaccess.h | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/uaccess.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/uaccess.h
index 5838fa911aa0..d4d6eb8c08a8 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/uaccess.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/uaccess.h
@@ -384,7 +384,7 @@ do {									\
 	asm volatile("1:	mov"itype" %1,%"rtype"0\n"		\
 		     "2:\n"						\
 		     _ASM_EXTABLE_EX(1b, 2b)				\
-		     : ltype(x) : "m" (__m(addr)))
+		     : ltype(x) : "m" (__m(addr)), "0" (0))

 #define __put_user_nocheck(x, ptr, size)			\
 ({								\
-- 
2.10.2