fs/xattr.c: zero out memory copied to userspace in getxattr

getxattr uses vmalloc to allocate memory if kzalloc fails.  This is
filled by vfs_getxattr and then copied to the userspace.  vmalloc,
however, doesn't zero out the memory so if the specific implementation
of the xattr handler is sloppy we can theoretically expose a kernel
memory.  There is no real sign this is really the case but let's make
sure this will not happen and use vzalloc instead.

Fixes: 779302e67835 ("fs/xattr.c:getxattr(): improve handling of allocation failures")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170306103327.2766-1-mhocko@kernel.org
Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Reported-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>	[3.6+]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

diff --git a/fs/xattr.c b/fs/xattr.c
index 7e3317cf4045523a7d0b17f102d51775808a8950..94f49a082dd20de0280202c9b41b2d4d2dbb189d 100644 (file)
--- a/fs/xattr.c
+++ b/fs/xattr.c
@@ -530,7 +530,7 @@ getxattr(struct dentry *d, const char __user *name, void __user *value,
                        size = XATTR_SIZE_MAX;
                kvalue = kzalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NOWARN);
                if (!kvalue) {
-                       kvalue = vmalloc(size);
+                       kvalue = vzalloc(size);
                        if (!kvalue)
                                return -ENOMEM;
                }