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| author | Anant Thazhemadam <anant.thazhemadam@gmail.com> | 2020-11-23 04:15:34 +0530 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> | 2020-12-09 19:36:26 +0100 |
| commit | 31dcb6c30a26d32650ce134820f27de3c675a45a (patch) | |
| tree | e3b9b8b22423a595754c38617184fc6493999e5a /drivers/misc | |
| parent | 997754f114efeb290310ea8e39c8b04c2ce93961 (diff) | |
| download | linux-31dcb6c30a26d32650ce134820f27de3c675a45a.tar.bz2 | |
misc: vmw_vmci: fix kernel info-leak by initializing dbells in vmci_ctx_get_chkpt_doorbells()
A kernel-infoleak was reported by syzbot, which was caused because
dbells was left uninitialized.
Using kzalloc() instead of kmalloc() fixes this issue.
Reported-by: syzbot+a79e17c39564bedf0930@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Tested-by: syzbot+a79e17c39564bedf0930@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Signed-off-by: Anant Thazhemadam <anant.thazhemadam@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201122224534.333471-1-anant.thazhemadam@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/misc')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/misc/vmw_vmci/vmci_context.c | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/misc/vmw_vmci/vmci_context.c b/drivers/misc/vmw_vmci/vmci_context.c index 16695366ec92..26ff49fdf0f7 100644 --- a/drivers/misc/vmw_vmci/vmci_context.c +++ b/drivers/misc/vmw_vmci/vmci_context.c @@ -743,7 +743,7 @@ static int vmci_ctx_get_chkpt_doorbells(struct vmci_ctx *context, return VMCI_ERROR_MORE_DATA; } - dbells = kmalloc(data_size, GFP_ATOMIC); + dbells = kzalloc(data_size, GFP_ATOMIC); if (!dbells) return VMCI_ERROR_NO_MEM; |