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fs/binfmt_elf.c: allocate initialized memory in fill_thread_core_info()
authorAlexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>
Thu, 28 May 2020 05:20:52 +0000 (22:20 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Thu, 28 May 2020 18:35:40 +0000 (11:35 -0700)
commit1d605416fb7175e1adf094251466caa52093b413
tree0116d920c5facf13b63774d9e9a9248748075924
parent6988f31d558aa8c744464a7f6d91d34ada48ad12
fs/binfmt_elf.c: allocate initialized memory in fill_thread_core_info()

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>
fs/binfmt_elf.c