[ 12/25] fanotify: info leak in copy_event_to_user()

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Thu Aug 08 2013 - 21:51:49 EST


3.4-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>

commit de1e0c40aceb9d5bff09c3a3b97b2f1b178af53f upstream.

The ->reserved field isn't cleared so we leak one byte of stack
information to userspace.

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Eric Paris <eparis@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

---
fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify_user.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

--- a/fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify_user.c
+++ b/fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify_user.c
@@ -120,6 +120,7 @@ static int fill_event_metadata(struct fs
metadata->event_len = FAN_EVENT_METADATA_LEN;
metadata->metadata_len = FAN_EVENT_METADATA_LEN;
metadata->vers = FANOTIFY_METADATA_VERSION;
+ metadata->reserved = 0;
metadata->mask = event->mask & FAN_ALL_OUTGOING_EVENTS;
metadata->pid = pid_vnr(event->tgid);
if (unlikely(event->mask & FAN_Q_OVERFLOW))


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