[PATCH 3.2 083/164] posix-timers: Fix stack info leak in timer_create()

[Ben Hutchings]

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

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From: Mathias Krause <minipli@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

commit 6891c4509c792209c44ced55a60f13954cb50ef4 upstream.

If userland creates a timer without specifying a sigevent info, we'll
create one ourself, using a stack local variable. Particularly will we
use the timer ID as sival_int. But as sigev_value is a union containing
a pointer and an int, that assignment will only partially initialize
sigev_value on systems where the size of a pointer is bigger than the
size of an int. On such systems we'll copy the uninitialized stack bytes
from the timer_create() call to userland when the timer actually fires
and we're going to deliver the signal.

Initialize sigev_value with 0 to plug the stack info leak.

Found in the PaX patch, written by the PaX Team.

Fixes: 5a9fa7307285 ("posix-timers: kill ->it_sigev_signo and...")
Signed-off-by: Mathias Krause <minipli@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Brad Spengler <spender@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: PaX Team <pageexec@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1412456799-32339-1-git-send-email-minipli@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
[bwh: Backported to 3.2: adjust filename]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 kernel/posix-timers.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

--- a/kernel/posix-timers.c
+++ b/kernel/posix-timers.c
@@ -589,6 +589,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE3(timer_create, const cloc
 			goto out;
 		}
 	} else {
+		memset(&event.sigev_value, 0, sizeof(event.sigev_value));
 		event.sigev_notify = SIGEV_SIGNAL;
 		event.sigev_signo = SIGALRM;
 		event.sigev_value.sival_int = new_timer->it_id;

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