linux-kernel - [PATCH] misc: vmw_vmci: fix kernel info-leak by initializing dbells in vmci_ctx_get_chkpt

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Date:   Mon, 23 Nov 2020 04:15:34 +0530
From:   Anant Thazhemadam <anant.thazhemadam@...il.com>
To:     Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Anant Thazhemadam <anant.thazhemadam@...il.com>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        syzbot+a79e17c39564bedf0930@...kaller.appspotmail.com
Subject: [PATCH] misc: vmw_vmci: fix kernel info-leak by initializing dbells in vmci_ctx_get_chkpt_doorbells()

A kernel-infoleak was reported by syzbot, which was caused because
dbells was left uninitialized.
Using kzalloc() instead of kmalloc() fixes this issue.

Reported-by: syzbot+a79e17c39564bedf0930@...kaller.appspotmail.com
Tested-by: syzbot+a79e17c39564bedf0930@...kaller.appspotmail.com
Signed-off-by: Anant Thazhemadam <anant.thazhemadam@...il.com>
---
 drivers/misc/vmw_vmci/vmci_context.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/misc/vmw_vmci/vmci_context.c b/drivers/misc/vmw_vmci/vmci_context.c
index 16695366ec92..26ff49fdf0f7 100644
--- a/drivers/misc/vmw_vmci/vmci_context.c
+++ b/drivers/misc/vmw_vmci/vmci_context.c
@@ -743,7 +743,7 @@ static int vmci_ctx_get_chkpt_doorbells(struct vmci_ctx *context,
 			return VMCI_ERROR_MORE_DATA;
 		}
 
-		dbells = kmalloc(data_size, GFP_ATOMIC);
+		dbells = kzalloc(data_size, GFP_ATOMIC);
 		if (!dbells)
 			return VMCI_ERROR_NO_MEM;
 
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2.25.1