target: Explicitly clear ramdisk_mcp backend pages
authorNicholas A. Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
Mon, 16 Jun 2014 20:59:52 +0000 (20:59 +0000)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Tue, 1 Jul 2014 03:09:45 +0000 (20:09 -0700)
commit43507abd621cb72b55142e7b18a4aa77a19aa3f3
treed3f17603570d9cc8dbb5f78c917c7fa183c1b971
parentbe03ed7ca0bd65ced3cc033587c9034bd2eedc0b
target: Explicitly clear ramdisk_mcp backend pages

[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 <jdsm@tecnico.ulisboa.pt>
Cc: Jorge Daniel Sequeira Matias <jdsm@tecnico.ulisboa.pt>
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/target/target_core_rd.c