linux-kernel - [PATCH 3.2 45/74] ubifs: Don't leak kernel memory to the MTD

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Message-ID: <lsq.1507552234.853614979@decadent.org.uk>
Date:   Mon, 09 Oct 2017 13:30:34 +0100
From:   Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org
CC:     akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
        "Boris Brezillon" <boris.brezillon@...e-electrons.com>,
        "Richard Weinberger" <richard@....at>
Subject: [PATCH 3.2 45/74] ubifs: Don't leak kernel memory to the MTD

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

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From: Richard Weinberger <richard@....at>

commit 4acadda74ff8b949c448c0282765ae747e088c87 upstream.

When UBIFS prepares data structures which will be written to the MTD it
ensues that their lengths are multiple of 8. Since it uses kmalloc() the
padded bytes are left uninitialized and we leak a few bytes of kernel
memory to the MTD.
To make sure that all bytes are initialized, let's switch to kzalloc().
Kzalloc() is fine in this case because the buffers are not huge and in
the IO path the performance bottleneck is anyway the MTD.

Fixes: 1e51764a3c2a ("UBIFS: add new flash file system")
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@....at>
Reviewed-by: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@...e-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@....at>
[bwh: Backported to 3.2:
 - Drop change in ubifs_jnl_xrename()
 - Adjust context]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
---
 fs/ubifs/journal.c | 10 +++++-----
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

--- a/fs/ubifs/journal.c
+++ b/fs/ubifs/journal.c
@@ -573,7 +573,7 @@ int ubifs_jnl_update(struct ubifs_info *
 	aligned_dlen = ALIGN(dlen, 8);
 	aligned_ilen = ALIGN(ilen, 8);
 	len = aligned_dlen + aligned_ilen + UBIFS_INO_NODE_SZ;
-	dent = kmalloc(len, GFP_NOFS);
+	dent = kzalloc(len, GFP_NOFS);
 	if (!dent)
 		return -ENOMEM;
 
@@ -959,7 +959,7 @@ int ubifs_jnl_rename(struct ubifs_info *
 	len = aligned_dlen1 + aligned_dlen2 + ALIGN(ilen, 8) + ALIGN(plen, 8);
 	if (old_dir != new_dir)
 		len += plen;
-	dent = kmalloc(len, GFP_NOFS);
+	dent = kzalloc(len, GFP_NOFS);
 	if (!dent)
 		return -ENOMEM;
 
@@ -1307,7 +1307,7 @@ int ubifs_jnl_delete_xattr(struct ubifs_
 	hlen = host_ui->data_len + UBIFS_INO_NODE_SZ;
 	len = aligned_xlen + UBIFS_INO_NODE_SZ + ALIGN(hlen, 8);
 
-	xent = kmalloc(len, GFP_NOFS);
+	xent = kzalloc(len, GFP_NOFS);
 	if (!xent)
 		return -ENOMEM;
 
@@ -1414,7 +1414,7 @@ int ubifs_jnl_change_xattr(struct ubifs_
 	aligned_len1 = ALIGN(len1, 8);
 	aligned_len = aligned_len1 + ALIGN(len2, 8);
 
-	ino = kmalloc(aligned_len, GFP_NOFS);
+	ino = kzalloc(aligned_len, GFP_NOFS);
 	if (!ino)
 		return -ENOMEM;