From: Alexander Potapenko glider@google.com
[ Upstream commit 1d605416fb7175e1adf094251466caa52093b413 ]
KMSAN reported uninitialized data being written to disk when dumping core. As a result, several kilobytes of kmalloc memory may be written to the core file and then read by a non-privileged user.
Reported-by: sam sunhaoyl@outlook.com Signed-off-by: Alexander Potapenko glider@google.com Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton akpm@linux-foundation.org Acked-by: Kees Cook keescook@chromium.org Cc: Al Viro viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk Cc: Alexey Dobriyan adobriyan@gmail.com Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200419100848.63472-1-glider@google.com Link: https://github.com/google/kmsan/issues/76 Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin sashal@kernel.org --- fs/binfmt_elf.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/fs/binfmt_elf.c b/fs/binfmt_elf.c index 166846a40078..2c433c95adb5 100644 --- a/fs/binfmt_elf.c +++ b/fs/binfmt_elf.c @@ -1740,7 +1740,7 @@ static int fill_thread_core_info(struct elf_thread_core_info *t, (!regset->active || regset->active(t->task, regset) > 0)) { int ret; size_t size = regset->n * regset->size; - void *data = kmalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL); + void *data = kzalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL); if (unlikely(!data)) return 0; ret = regset->get(t->task, regset,