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authorKees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>2013-07-03 15:01:14 -0700
committerBen Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>2013-07-27 05:34:28 +0100
commitb442223040adf969fd02124c29c856a06cf5649c (patch)
treed11c367a98796d87a291b3eb36665ba8a0c11c89 /block
parent93f26306db89c9dc37885b76a1082e6d54d23b16 (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> [bwh: Backported to 3.2: adjust device pointer name in nbd.c] Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Diffstat (limited to 'block')
-rw-r--r--block/genhd.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/block/genhd.c b/block/genhd.c
index 6edf2284b276..8bd4ef247da3 100644
--- a/block/genhd.c
+++ b/block/genhd.c
@@ -519,7 +519,7 @@ void register_disk(struct gendisk *disk)
ddev->parent = disk->driverfs_dev;
- dev_set_name(ddev, disk->disk_name);
+ dev_set_name(ddev, "%s", disk->disk_name);
/* delay uevents, until we scanned partition table */
dev_set_uevent_suppress(ddev, 1);