From: Vasily Averin Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2016 10:41:14 +0000 (+0300) Subject: cifs_dbg() outputs an uninitialized buffer in cifs_readdir() X-Git-Tag: v4.1.12-92~150^2~298 X-Git-Url: https://www.infradead.org/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=927d6d5ab153eb9f72a2d82c7f497d52532a87d4;p=users%2Fjedix%2Flinux-maple.git cifs_dbg() outputs an uninitialized buffer in cifs_readdir() Orabug: 23330633 [ Upstream commit 01b9b0b28626db4a47d7f48744d70abca9914ef1 ] In some cases tmp_bug can be not filled in cifs_filldir and stay uninitialized, therefore its printk with "%s" modifier can leak content of kernelspace memory. If old content of this buffer does not contain '\0' access bejond end of allocated object can crash the host. Signed-off-by: Vasily Averin Signed-off-by: Steve French CC: Stable Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin (cherry picked from commit c5882812d2e1ab7db5bc71a1bca90b3a2d89dedd) Signed-off-by: Dan Duval --- diff --git a/fs/cifs/readdir.c b/fs/cifs/readdir.c index b1eede3678a91..3634c7adf7d20 100644 --- a/fs/cifs/readdir.c +++ b/fs/cifs/readdir.c @@ -847,6 +847,7 @@ int cifs_readdir(struct file *file, struct dir_context *ctx) * if buggy server returns . and .. late do we want to * check for that here? */ + *tmp_buf = 0; rc = cifs_filldir(current_entry, file, ctx, tmp_buf, max_len); if (rc) {