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authorKees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>2013-07-03 15:01:14 -0700
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2013-07-13 11:42:26 -0700
commit88ce7cf76ced99962699d0ebb4d47d6a88b94c29 (patch)
treef55e59db7fc04ebca71354ab4a529fc682a4ec09 /drivers/block
parent70621db0945635044214766b42e2dfca0d673929 (diff)
block: do not pass disk names as format strings
commit ffc8b30866879ed9ba62bd0a86fecdbd51cd3d19 upstream. 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> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/block')
-rw-r--r--drivers/block/nbd.c3
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/block/nbd.c b/drivers/block/nbd.c
index 037288e7874..46b35f7acfd 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,
else
blk_queue_flush(nbd->disk->queue, 0);
- thread = kthread_create(nbd_thread, nbd, nbd->disk->disk_name);
+ thread = kthread_create(nbd_thread, nbd, "%s",
+ nbd->disk->disk_name);
if (IS_ERR(thread)) {
mutex_lock(&nbd->tx_lock);
return PTR_ERR(thread);