[PATCH] uprobes: fix kernel info leak via "[uprobes]" vma

[Oleg Nesterov]

xol_add_vma() maps the uninitialized page allocated by __create_xol_area()
into userspace. On some architectures (x86) this memory is readable even
without VM_READ, VM_EXEC results in the same pgprot_t as VM_EXEC|VM_READ.

Reported-by: Will Deacon <will@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
 kernel/events/uprobes.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/events/uprobes.c b/kernel/events/uprobes.c
index 2ec796e2f055..4b52cb2ae6d6 100644
--- a/kernel/events/uprobes.c
+++ b/kernel/events/uprobes.c
@@ -1545,7 +1545,7 @@ static struct xol_area *__create_xol_area(unsigned long vaddr)
 	if (!area->bitmap)
 		goto free_area;
 
-	area->page = alloc_page(GFP_HIGHUSER);
+	area->page = alloc_page(GFP_HIGHUSER | __GFP_ZERO);
 	if (!area->page)
 		goto free_bitmap;
 
-- 
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