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| author | Nicholas A. Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org> | 2014-06-16 20:59:52 +0000 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> | 2014-06-30 20:01:33 -0700 |
| commit | e802a11d29bed1e9ea4dad092d745baae3290947 (patch) | |
| tree | 52e760ba6d7285a353583e64e1f3937311eac5e3 /drivers | |
| parent | b2ff2f48d169e743dd074ca53a6fb1c295771254 (diff) | |
target: Explicitly clear ramdisk_mcp backend pages
[Note that a different patch to address the same issue went in during
v3.15-rc1 (commit 4442dc8a), but includes a bunch of other changes that
don't strictly apply to fixing the bug]
This patch changes rd_allocate_sgl_table() to explicitly clear
ramdisk_mcp backend memory pages by passing __GFP_ZERO into
alloc_pages().
This addresses a potential security issue where reading from a
ramdisk_mcp could return sensitive information, and follows what
>= v3.15 does to explicitly clear ramdisk_mcp memory at backend
device initialization time.
Reported-by: Jorge Daniel Sequeira Matias <jdsm@tecnico.ulisboa.pt>
Cc: Jorge Daniel Sequeira Matias <jdsm@tecnico.ulisboa.pt>
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/target/target_core_rd.c | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/target/target_core_rd.c b/drivers/target/target_core_rd.c index 8b68f7b82631..fa4e21b882a0 100644 --- a/drivers/target/target_core_rd.c +++ b/drivers/target/target_core_rd.c @@ -177,7 +177,7 @@ static int rd_build_device_space(struct rd_dev *rd_dev) - 1; for (j = 0; j < sg_per_table; j++) { - pg = alloc_pages(GFP_KERNEL, 0); + pg = alloc_pages(GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_ZERO, 0); if (!pg) { pr_err("Unable to allocate scatterlist" " pages for struct rd_dev_sg_table\n"); |