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Diffstat (limited to 'freed-ora/current/master/cdrom-use-kzalloc-for-failing-hardware.patch')
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diff --git a/freed-ora/current/master/cdrom-use-kzalloc-for-failing-hardware.patch b/freed-ora/current/master/cdrom-use-kzalloc-for-failing-hardware.patch deleted file mode 100644 index 6afb6c4d8..000000000 --- a/freed-ora/current/master/cdrom-use-kzalloc-for-failing-hardware.patch +++ /dev/null @@ -1,45 +0,0 @@ -From 050e4b8fb7cdd7096c987a9cd556029c622c7fe2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 -From: Jonathan Salwan <jonathan.salwan@gmail.com> -Date: Thu, 06 Jun 2013 00:39:39 +0000 -Subject: drivers/cdrom/cdrom.c: use kzalloc() for failing hardware - -In drivers/cdrom/cdrom.c mmc_ioctl_cdrom_read_data() allocates a memory -area with kmalloc in line 2885. - -2885 cgc->buffer = kmalloc(blocksize, GFP_KERNEL); -2886 if (cgc->buffer == NULL) -2887 return -ENOMEM; - -In line 2908 we can find the copy_to_user function: - -2908 if (!ret && copy_to_user(arg, cgc->buffer, blocksize)) - -The cgc->buffer is never cleaned and initialized before this function. If -ret = 0 with the previous basic block, it's possible to display some -memory bytes in kernel space from userspace. - -When we read a block from the disk it normally fills the ->buffer but if -the drive is malfunctioning there is a chance that it would only be -partially filled. The result is an leak information to userspace. - -Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> -Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> -Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> ---- -(limited to 'drivers/cdrom/cdrom.c') - -diff --git a/drivers/cdrom/cdrom.c b/drivers/cdrom/cdrom.c -index d620b44..8a3aff7 100644 ---- a/drivers/cdrom/cdrom.c -+++ b/drivers/cdrom/cdrom.c -@@ -2882,7 +2882,7 @@ static noinline int mmc_ioctl_cdrom_read_data(struct cdrom_device_info *cdi, - if (lba < 0) - return -EINVAL; - -- cgc->buffer = kmalloc(blocksize, GFP_KERNEL); -+ cgc->buffer = kzalloc(blocksize, GFP_KERNEL); - if (cgc->buffer == NULL) - return -ENOMEM; - --- -cgit v0.9.2 |
