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authorAlexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>2020-05-27 22:20:52 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2020-05-28 11:35:40 -0700
commit1d605416fb7175e1adf094251466caa52093b413 (patch)
tree0116d920c5facf13b63774d9e9a9248748075924 /fs/binfmt_elf.c
parent6988f31d558aa8c744464a7f6d91d34ada48ad12 (diff)
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/binfmt_elf.c')
-rw-r--r--fs/binfmt_elf.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/fs/binfmt_elf.c b/fs/binfmt_elf.c
index 13f25e241ac4..25d489bc9453 100644
--- a/fs/binfmt_elf.c
+++ b/fs/binfmt_elf.c
@@ -1733,7 +1733,7 @@ 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_size(t->task, regset);
- void *data = kmalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL);
+ void *data = kzalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL);
if (unlikely(!data))
return 0;
ret = regset->get(t->task, regset,