TPM: Zero buffer after copying to userspace

Since the buffer might contain security related data it might be a good idea to
zero the buffer after we have copied it to userspace.

This got assigned CVE-2011-1162.

Signed-off-by: Rajiv Andrade <srajiv@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Stable Kernel <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>

diff --git a/drivers/char/tpm/tpm.c b/drivers/char/tpm/tpm.c
index 1fe9793358357390c1a25fbafd4f79cb9515551a..9ca5c021d0b6c1bf85b0984a991975b9eb0fcdfe 100644 (file)
--- a/drivers/char/tpm/tpm.c
+++ b/drivers/char/tpm/tpm.c
@@ -1105,6 +1105,7 @@ ssize_t tpm_read(struct file *file, char __user *buf,
 {
        struct tpm_chip *chip = file->private_data;
        ssize_t ret_size;
+       int rc;
 
        del_singleshot_timer_sync(&chip->user_read_timer);
        flush_work_sync(&chip->work);
@@ -1115,8 +1116,11 @@ ssize_t tpm_read(struct file *file, char __user *buf,
                        ret_size = size;
 
                mutex_lock(&chip->buffer_mutex);
-               if (copy_to_user(buf, chip->data_buffer, ret_size))
+               rc = copy_to_user(buf, chip->data_buffer, ret_size);
+               memset(chip->data_buffer, 0, ret_size);
+               if (rc)
                        ret_size = -EFAULT;
+
                mutex_unlock(&chip->buffer_mutex);
        }