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Andy Whitcroft 65eea8edc3 floppy: Do not copy a kernel pointer to user memory in FDGETPRM ioctl
The final field of a floppy_struct is the field "name", which is a pointer
to a string in kernel memory.  The kernel pointer should not be copied to
user memory.  The FDGETPRM ioctl copies a floppy_struct to user memory,
including this "name" field.  This pointer cannot be used by the user
and it will leak a kernel address to user-space, which will reveal the
location of kernel code and data and undermine KASLR protection.

Model this code after the compat ioctl which copies the returned data
to a previously cleared temporary structure on the stack (excluding the
name pointer) and copy out to userspace from there.  As we already have
an inparam union with an appropriate member and that memory is already
cleared even for read only calls make use of that as a temporary store.

Based on an initial patch by Brian Belleville.

CVE-2018-7755
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>

Broke up long line.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2018-09-20 09:09:48 -06:00
arch IOMMU Update for Linux v4.19 2018-08-24 13:10:38 -07:00
block blk-cgroup: increase number of supported policies 2018-09-11 10:59:53 -06:00
certs Replace magic for trusting the secondary keyring with #define 2018-08-16 09:57:20 -07:00
crypto DMAengine updates for v4.19-rc1 2018-08-18 15:55:59 -07:00
Documentation Merge branch 'stable/for-jens-4.19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/konrad/xen into for-linus 2018-08-27 11:27:32 -06:00
drivers floppy: Do not copy a kernel pointer to user memory in FDGETPRM ioctl 2018-09-20 09:09:48 -06:00
firmware
fs This pull request contains a single fix for UBIFS: 2018-08-25 13:27:35 -07:00
include blk-cgroup: increase number of supported policies 2018-09-11 10:59:53 -06:00
init Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) 2018-08-22 12:34:08 -07:00
ipc ipc/util.c: update return value of ipc_getref from int to bool 2018-08-22 10:52:52 -07:00
kernel Merge branch 'for-4.19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup 2018-08-24 13:19:27 -07:00
lib lib/fonts: convert comments to utf-8 2018-08-23 18:48:43 -07:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Add Linux-OpenIB license text 2018-04-27 16:41:53 -06:00
mm blkcg: delay blkg destruction until after writeback has finished 2018-08-31 14:48:56 -06:00
net Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) 2018-08-23 19:20:12 -07:00
samples samples/bpf: all XDP samples should unload xdp/bpf prog on SIGTERM 2018-08-16 21:55:32 +02:00
scripts treewide: correct "differenciate" and "instanciate" typos 2018-08-23 18:48:43 -07:00
security + Cleanups 2018-08-24 13:00:33 -07:00
sound Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) 2018-08-23 19:20:12 -07:00
tools treewide: convert ISO_8859-1 text comments to utf-8 2018-08-23 18:48:43 -07:00
usr
virt ARM: Support for Group0 interrupts in guests, Cache management 2018-08-22 13:52:44 -07:00
.clang-format clang-format: Set IndentWrappedFunctionNames false 2018-08-01 18:38:51 +02:00
.cocciconfig
.get_maintainer.ignore
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.gitignore Kbuild updates for v4.17 (2nd) 2018-04-15 17:21:30 -07:00
.mailmap Merge branch 'linus/master' into rdma.git for-next 2018-08-16 14:21:29 -06:00
COPYING
CREDITS 9p: remove Ron Minnich from MAINTAINERS 2018-08-17 16:20:26 -07:00
Kbuild
Kconfig kconfig: move the "Executable file formats" menu to fs/Kconfig.binfmt 2018-08-02 08:06:55 +09:00
MAINTAINERS libata: maintainership update 2018-08-25 12:35:45 -07:00
Makefile Updates for v4.19: 2018-08-20 18:32:00 -07:00
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