linux-kernel - [PATCH 3.16 296/346] fix minor infoleak in get_user

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Date:   Mon, 14 Nov 2016 00:14:20 +0000
From:   Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org
CC:     akpm@...ux-foundation.org, "Al Viro" <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>,
        "Linus Torvalds" <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        "Al Viro" <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>
Subject: [PATCH 3.16 296/346] fix minor infoleak in get_user_ex()

3.16.39-rc1 review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>

commit 1c109fabbd51863475cd12ac206bdd249aee35af upstream.

get_user_ex(x, ptr) should zero x on failure.  It's not a lot of a leak
(at most we are leaking uninitialized 64bit value off the kernel stack,
and in a fairly constrained situation, at that), but the fix is trivial,
so...

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>
[ This sat in different branch from the uaccess fixes since mid-August ]
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
---
 arch/x86/include/asm/uaccess.h | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/uaccess.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/uaccess.h
@@ -391,7 +391,11 @@ do {									\
 #define __get_user_asm_ex(x, addr, itype, rtype, ltype)			\
 	asm volatile("1:	mov"itype" %1,%"rtype"0\n"		\
 		     "2:\n"						\
-		     _ASM_EXTABLE_EX(1b, 2b)				\
+		     ".section .fixup,\"ax\"\n"				\
+                     "3:xor"itype" %"rtype"0,%"rtype"0\n"		\
+		     "  jmp 2b\n"					\
+		     ".previous\n"					\
+		     _ASM_EXTABLE_EX(1b, 3b)				\
 		     : ltype(x) : "m" (__m(addr)))
 
 #define __put_user_nocheck(x, ptr, size)			\