[PATCH] cgroups: censor kernel pointer in debug files

From: Kees Cook
Date: Sat Feb 25 2017 - 04:57:00 EST


As found in grsecurity, this avoids exposing a kernel pointer through
the cgroup debug entries.

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/cgroup.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/cgroup.c b/kernel/cgroup.c
index 53bbca7c4859..b794bcadefa4 100644
--- a/kernel/cgroup.c
+++ b/kernel/cgroup.c
@@ -6589,7 +6589,7 @@ static int cgroup_css_links_read(struct seq_file *seq, void *v)
struct task_struct *task;
int count = 0;

- seq_printf(seq, "css_set %p\n", cset);
+ seq_printf(seq, "css_set %pK\n", cset);

list_for_each_entry(task, &cset->tasks, cg_list) {
if (count++ > MAX_TASKS_SHOWN_PER_CSS)
--
2.7.4


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Kees Cook
Pixel Security