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[PATCH 3.16 120/134] fs/xattr.c: zero out memory copied to userspace in getxattr

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3.16.47-rc1 review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>

commit 81be3dee96346fbe08c31be5ef74f03f6b63cf68 upstream.

getxattr uses vmalloc to allocate memory if kzalloc fails.  This is
filled by vfs_getxattr and then copied to the userspace.  vmalloc,
however, doesn't zero out the memory so if the specific implementation
of the xattr handler is sloppy we can theoretically expose a kernel
memory.  There is no real sign this is really the case but let's make
sure this will not happen and use vzalloc instead.

Fixes: 779302e67835 ("fs/xattr.c:getxattr(): improve handling of allocation failures")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170306103327.2766-1-mhocko@kernel.org
Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Reported-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
[bwh: Backported to 3.16: adjust context]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
---
 fs/xattr.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/fs/xattr.c
+++ b/fs/xattr.c
@@ -455,7 +455,7 @@ getxattr(struct dentry *d, const char __
 			size = XATTR_SIZE_MAX;
 		kvalue = kzalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NOWARN);
 		if (!kvalue) {
-			vvalue = vmalloc(size);
+			vvalue = vzalloc(size);
 			if (!vvalue)
 				return -ENOMEM;
 			kvalue = vvalue;

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[PATCH 3.16 120/134] fs/xattr.c: zero out memory copied to  userspace in getxattr Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> - 2017-08-18 15:20 +0200

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