posix-timers: Fix stack info leak in timer_create()

commit 6891c4509c792209c44ced55a60f13954cb50ef4 upstream.

If userland creates a timer without specifying a sigevent info, we'll
create one ourself, using a stack local variable. Particularly will we
use the timer ID as sival_int. But as sigev_value is a union containing
a pointer and an int, that assignment will only partially initialize
sigev_value on systems where the size of a pointer is bigger than the
size of an int. On such systems we'll copy the uninitialized stack bytes
from the timer_create() call to userland when the timer actually fires
and we're going to deliver the signal.

Initialize sigev_value with 0 to plug the stack info leak.

Found in the PaX patch, written by the PaX Team.

Fixes: 5a9fa7307285 ("posix-timers: kill ->it_sigev_signo and...")
Signed-off-by: Mathias Krause <minipli@googlemail.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Brad Spengler <spender@grsecurity.net>
Cc: PaX Team <pageexec@freemail.hu>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1412456799-32339-1-git-send-email-minipli@googlemail.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

diff --git a/kernel/posix-timers.c b/kernel/posix-timers.c
index 424c2d4265c90cca5a484f2d5ae0ab587550e454..77e6b83c0431515e7c47f0888e5ae74af4ee5199 100644 (file)
--- a/kernel/posix-timers.c
+++ b/kernel/posix-timers.c
@@ -634,6 +634,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE3(timer_create, const clockid_t, which_clock,
                        goto out;
                }
        } else {
+               memset(&event.sigev_value, 0, sizeof(event.sigev_value));
                event.sigev_notify = SIGEV_SIGNAL;
                event.sigev_signo = SIGALRM;
                event.sigev_value.sival_int = new_timer->it_id;