The patch titled Subject: libfs: fix infoleak in simple_attr_read() has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is libfs-fix-infoleak-in-simple_attr_read.patch

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------------------------------------------------------ From: Eric Biggers ebiggers@google.com Subject: libfs: fix infoleak in simple_attr_read()

Reading from a debugfs file at a nonzero position, without first reading at position 0, leaks uninitialized memory to userspace.

It's a bit tricky to do this, since lseek() and pread() aren't allowed on these files, and write() doesn't update the position on them. But writing to them with splice() *does* update the position:

#define _GNU_SOURCE 1 #include <fcntl.h> #include <stdio.h> #include <unistd.h> int main() { int pipes[2], fd, n, i; char buf[32];

pipe(pipes); write(pipes[1], "0", 1); fd = open("/sys/kernel/debug/fault_around_bytes", O_RDWR); splice(pipes[0], NULL, fd, NULL, 1, 0); n = read(fd, buf, sizeof(buf)); for (i = 0; i < n; i++) printf("%02x", buf[i]); printf(" "); }

Output: 5a5a5a5a5a5a5a5a5a5a5a5a5a5a5a5a5a5a5a5a5a5a5a30

Fix the infoleak by making simple_attr_read() always fill simple_attr::get_buf if it hasn't been filled yet.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200308023849.988264-1-ebiggers@kernel.org Fixes: acaefc25d21f ("[PATCH] libfs: add simple attribute files") Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers ebiggers@google.com Reported-by: syzbot+fcab69d1ada3e8d6f06b@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Reported-by: Alexander Potapenko glider@google.com Cc: Al Viro viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk Cc: Arnd Bergmann arnd@arndb.de Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" rafael@kernel.org Cc: Kees Cook keescook@chromium.org Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton akpm@linux-foundation.org ---

fs/libfs.c | 8 +++++--- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

--- a/fs/libfs.c~libfs-fix-infoleak-in-simple_attr_read +++ a/fs/libfs.c @@ -891,7 +891,7 @@ int simple_attr_open(struct inode *inode { struct simple_attr *attr;

- attr = kmalloc(sizeof(*attr), GFP_KERNEL); + attr = kzalloc(sizeof(*attr), GFP_KERNEL); if (!attr) return -ENOMEM;

@@ -931,9 +931,11 @@ ssize_t simple_attr_read(struct file *fi if (ret) return ret;

- if (*ppos) { /* continued read */ + if (*ppos && attr->get_buf[0]) { + /* continued read */ size = strlen(attr->get_buf); - } else { /* first read */ + } else { + /* first read */ u64 val; ret = attr->get(attr->data, &val); if (ret) _

Patches currently in -mm which might be from ebiggers@google.com are

libfs-fix-infoleak-in-simple_attr_read.patch kmod-make-request_module-return-an-error-when-autoloading-is-disabled.patch fs-filesystemsc-downgrade-user-reachable-warn_once-to-pr_warn_once.patch docs-admin-guide-document-the-kernelmodprobe-sysctl.patch selftests-kmod-fix-handling-test-numbers-above-9.patch selftests-kmod-test-disabling-module-autoloading.patch