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[PATCH 3.10 56/77] [PATCH] target: Explicitly clear ramdisk_mcp backend pages

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Date: 2014-06-28 17:48:51
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3.10-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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[Note that a different patch to address the same issue went in during
v3.15-rc1 (commit 4442dc8a), but includes a bunch of other changes that
don't strictly apply to fixing the bug]

This patch changes rd_allocate_sgl_table() to explicitly clear
ramdisk_mcp backend memory pages by passing __GFP_ZERO into
alloc_pages().

This addresses a potential security issue where reading from a
ramdisk_mcp could return sensitive information, and follows what
= v3.15 does to explicitly clear ramdisk_mcp memory at backend
device initialization time.

Reported-by: Jorge Daniel Sequeira Matias <redacted>
Cc: Jorge Daniel Sequeira Matias <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 drivers/target/target_core_rd.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/drivers/target/target_core_rd.c
+++ b/drivers/target/target_core_rd.c
@@ -174,7 +174,7 @@ static int rd_build_device_space(struct
 						- 1;
 
 		for (j = 0; j < sg_per_table; j++) {
-			pg = alloc_pages(GFP_KERNEL, 0);
+			pg = alloc_pages(GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_ZERO, 0);
 			if (!pg) {
 				pr_err("Unable to allocate scatterlist"
 					" pages for struct rd_dev_sg_table\n");

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