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authorKees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>2013-07-03 18:01:14 -0400
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2013-07-03 19:07:25 -0400
commitffc8b30866879ed9ba62bd0a86fecdbd51cd3d19 (patch)
tree21fdc09c7011ed9a1b85e98f7718a58a2c903d32
parent542db01579fbb7ea7d1f7bb9ddcef1559df660b2 (diff)
block: do not pass disk names as format strings
Disk names may contain arbitrary strings, so they must not be interpreted as format strings. It seems that only md allows arbitrary strings to be used for disk names, but this could allow for a local memory corruption from uid 0 into ring 0. CVE-2013-2851 Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
-rw-r--r--block/genhd.c2
-rw-r--r--drivers/block/nbd.c3
-rw-r--r--drivers/scsi/osd/osd_uld.c2
3 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/block/genhd.c b/block/genhd.c
index e9094b375c05..dadf42b454a3 100644
--- a/block/genhd.c
+++ b/block/genhd.c
@@ -512,7 +512,7 @@ static void register_disk(struct gendisk *disk)
512 512
513 ddev->parent = disk->driverfs_dev; 513 ddev->parent = disk->driverfs_dev;
514 514
515 dev_set_name(ddev, disk->disk_name); 515 dev_set_name(ddev, "%s", disk->disk_name);
516 516
517 /* delay uevents, until we scanned partition table */ 517 /* delay uevents, until we scanned partition table */
518 dev_set_uevent_suppress(ddev, 1); 518 dev_set_uevent_suppress(ddev, 1);
diff --git a/drivers/block/nbd.c b/drivers/block/nbd.c
index 037288e7874d..46b35f7acfde 100644
--- a/drivers/block/nbd.c
+++ b/drivers/block/nbd.c
@@ -714,7 +714,8 @@ static int __nbd_ioctl(struct block_device *bdev, struct nbd_device *nbd,
714 else 714 else
715 blk_queue_flush(nbd->disk->queue, 0); 715 blk_queue_flush(nbd->disk->queue, 0);
716 716
717 thread = kthread_create(nbd_thread, nbd, nbd->disk->disk_name); 717 thread = kthread_create(nbd_thread, nbd, "%s",
718 nbd->disk->disk_name);
718 if (IS_ERR(thread)) { 719 if (IS_ERR(thread)) {
719 mutex_lock(&nbd->tx_lock); 720 mutex_lock(&nbd->tx_lock);
720 return PTR_ERR(thread); 721 return PTR_ERR(thread);
diff --git a/drivers/scsi/osd/osd_uld.c b/drivers/scsi/osd/osd_uld.c
index 0fab6b5c7b82..9d86947d67fe 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/osd/osd_uld.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/osd/osd_uld.c
@@ -485,7 +485,7 @@ static int osd_probe(struct device *dev)
485 oud->class_dev.class = &osd_uld_class; 485 oud->class_dev.class = &osd_uld_class;
486 oud->class_dev.parent = dev; 486 oud->class_dev.parent = dev;
487 oud->class_dev.release = __remove; 487 oud->class_dev.release = __remove;
488 error = dev_set_name(&oud->class_dev, disk->disk_name); 488 error = dev_set_name(&oud->class_dev, "%s", disk->disk_name);
489 if (error) { 489 if (error) {
490 OSD_ERR("dev_set_name failed => %d\n", error); 490 OSD_ERR("dev_set_name failed => %d\n", error);
491 goto err_put_cdev; 491 goto err_put_cdev;