Re: [PATCH] [8/106] xfs: prevent leaking uninitialized stackmemory in FSGEOMETRY_V1

From: Dave Chinner
Date: Wed Apr 27 2011 - 01:26:19 EST


On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 02:12:46PM -0700, Andi Kleen wrote:
> 2.6.35-longterm review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
>
> ------------------
> From: Dan Rosenberg <drosenberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> commit c4d0c3b097f7584772316ee4d64a09fe0e4ddfca upstream.
>
> The FSGEOMETRY_V1 ioctl (and its compat equivalent) calls out to
> xfs_fs_geometry() with a version number of 3. This code path does not
> fill in the logsunit member of the passed xfs_fsop_geom_t, leading to
> the leaking of four bytes of uninitialized stack data to potentially
> unprivileged callers.
>
> v2 switches to memset() to avoid future issues if structure members
> change, on suggestion of Dave Chinner.

Did you grab the followup patch that fixed the stack corruption
this change caused?

Cheers,

Dave.
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