linux-kernel - [43/80] Prevent freeing uninitialized pointer in compat_do_readv

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Message-Id: <20100924162618.617822417@clark.site>
Date:	Fri, 24 Sep 2010 09:24:31 -0700
From:	Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...nel.org
Cc:	stable-review@...nel.org, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk,
	Dan Rosenberg <dan.j.rosenberg@...il.com>,
	Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>
Subject: [43/80] Prevent freeing uninitialized pointer in compat_do_readv_writev

2.6.35-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let us know.

------------------

From: Dan Rosenberg <drosenberg@...curity.com>

commit 767b68e96993e29e3480d7ecdd9c4b84667c5762 upstream.

In 32-bit compatibility mode, the error handling for
compat_do_readv_writev() may free an uninitialized pointer, potentially
leading to all sorts of ugly memory corruption.  This is reliably
triggerable by unprivileged users by invoking the readv()/writev()
syscalls with an invalid iovec pointer.  The below patch fixes this to
emulate the non-compat version.

Introduced by commit b83733639a49 ("compat: factor out
compat_rw_copy_check_uvector from compat_do_readv_writev")

Signed-off-by: Dan Rosenberg <dan.j.rosenberg@...il.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>

---
 fs/compat.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/fs/compat.c
+++ b/fs/compat.c
@@ -1150,7 +1150,7 @@ static ssize_t compat_do_readv_writev(in
 {
 	compat_ssize_t tot_len;
 	struct iovec iovstack[UIO_FASTIOV];
-	struct iovec *iov;
+	struct iovec *iov = iovstack;
 	ssize_t ret;
 	io_fn_t fn;
 	iov_fn_t fnv;


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