xfs: xfs_ioctl: fix information leak to userland

al_hreq is copied from userland.  If al_hreq.buflen is not properly aligned
then xfs_attr_list will ignore the last bytes of kbuf.  These bytes are
unitialized.  It leads to leaking of contents of kernel stack memory.

Signed-off-by: Vasiliy Kulikov <segooon@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_ioctl.c b/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_ioctl.c
index 2ea238f6d38e..ad442d9e392e 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_ioctl.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_ioctl.c
@@ -416,7 +416,7 @@ xfs_attrlist_by_handle(
         if (IS_ERR(dentry))
                 return PTR_ERR(dentry);
 
-        kbuf = kmalloc(al_hreq.buflen, GFP_KERNEL);
+        kbuf = kzalloc(al_hreq.buflen, GFP_KERNEL);
         if (!kbuf)
                 goto out_dput;