[PATCH 063/145] block: do not pass disk names as format strings

From: Kamal Mostafa
Date: Wed Jul 17 2013 - 19:18:46 EST


3.8.13.5 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

commit ffc8b30866879ed9ba62bd0a86fecdbd51cd3d19 upstream.

Disk names may contain arbitrary strings, so they must not be
interpreted as format strings. It seems that only md allows arbitrary
strings to be used for disk names, but this could allow for a local
memory corruption from uid 0 into ring 0.

CVE-2013-2851

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
[ luis: backported to 3.8: adjusted context ]
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
block/genhd.c | 2 +-
drivers/block/nbd.c | 3 ++-
drivers/scsi/osd/osd_uld.c | 2 +-
3 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/block/genhd.c b/block/genhd.c
index 7dcfdd8..b596dfc 100644
--- a/block/genhd.c
+++ b/block/genhd.c
@@ -520,7 +520,7 @@ static void register_disk(struct gendisk *disk)

ddev->parent = disk->driverfs_dev;

- dev_set_name(ddev, disk->disk_name);
+ dev_set_name(ddev, "%s", disk->disk_name);

/* delay uevents, until we scanned partition table */
dev_set_uevent_suppress(ddev, 1);
diff --git a/drivers/block/nbd.c b/drivers/block/nbd.c
index eb591fb..0f9262e 100644
--- a/drivers/block/nbd.c
+++ b/drivers/block/nbd.c
@@ -694,7 +694,8 @@ static int __nbd_ioctl(struct block_device *bdev, struct nbd_device *nbd,
queue_flag_set_unlocked(QUEUE_FLAG_DISCARD,
nbd->disk->queue);

- thread = kthread_create(nbd_thread, nbd, nbd->disk->disk_name);
+ thread = kthread_create(nbd_thread, nbd, "%s",
+ nbd->disk->disk_name);
if (IS_ERR(thread)) {
mutex_lock(&nbd->tx_lock);
return PTR_ERR(thread);
diff --git a/drivers/scsi/osd/osd_uld.c b/drivers/scsi/osd/osd_uld.c
index 4375417..599415e 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/osd/osd_uld.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/osd/osd_uld.c
@@ -493,7 +493,7 @@ static int osd_probe(struct device *dev)
oud->class_dev.class = &osd_uld_class;
oud->class_dev.parent = dev;
oud->class_dev.release = __remove;
- error = dev_set_name(&oud->class_dev, disk->disk_name);
+ error = dev_set_name(&oud->class_dev, "%s", disk->disk_name);
if (error) {
OSD_ERR("dev_set_name failed => %d\n", error);
goto err_put_cdev;
--
1.8.1.2

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