[PATCH v2] xfs: prevent leaking uninitialized stack memory inFSGEOMETRY_V1

From: Dan Rosenberg
Date: Mon Feb 14 2011 - 08:45:39 EST


The FSGEOMETRY_V1 ioctl (and its compat equivalent) calls out to
xfs_fs_geometry() with a version number of 3. This code path does not
fill in the logsunit member of the passed xfs_fsop_geom_t, leading to
the leaking of four bytes of uninitialized stack data to potentially
unprivileged callers.

v2 switches to memset() to avoid future issues if structure members
change, on suggestion of Dave Chinner.

Signed-off-by: Dan Rosenberg <drosenberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/xfs/xfs_fsops.c | 3 +++
1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_fsops.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_fsops.c
index cec89dd..85668ef 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/xfs_fsops.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_fsops.c
@@ -53,6 +53,9 @@ xfs_fs_geometry(
xfs_fsop_geom_t *geo,
int new_version)
{
+
+ memset(geo, 0, sizeof(*geo));
+
geo->blocksize = mp->m_sb.sb_blocksize;
geo->rtextsize = mp->m_sb.sb_rextsize;
geo->agblocks = mp->m_sb.sb_agblocks;


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