From patchwork Tue Jul 9 16:29:15 2013 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: Luis Henriques X-Patchwork-Id: 257819 Return-Path: X-Original-To: incoming@patchwork.ozlabs.org Delivered-To: patchwork-incoming@bilbo.ozlabs.org Received: from huckleberry.canonical.com (huckleberry.canonical.com [91.189.94.19]) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E10C72C00A1 for ; Wed, 10 Jul 2013 02:32:24 +1000 (EST) Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=huckleberry.canonical.com) by huckleberry.canonical.com with esmtp (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1Uwapt-0000Uf-DQ; Tue, 09 Jul 2013 16:32:17 +0000 Received: from youngberry.canonical.com ([91.189.89.112]) by huckleberry.canonical.com with esmtp (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1Uwamy-0006rm-W2 for kernel-team@lists.ubuntu.com; Tue, 09 Jul 2013 16:29:16 +0000 Received: from bl15-104-132.dsl.telepac.pt ([188.80.104.132] helo=localhost) by youngberry.canonical.com with esmtpsa (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Uwamy-00083D-FD; Tue, 09 Jul 2013 16:29:16 +0000 From: Luis Henriques To: Kees Cook Subject: [ 3.8.y.z extended stable ] Patch "block: do not pass disk names as format strings" has been added to staging queue Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2013 17:29:15 +0100 Message-Id: <1373387355-22835-1-git-send-email-luis.henriques@canonical.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.8.1.2 X-Extended-Stable: 3.8 Cc: Jens Axboe , Andrew Morton , Linus Torvalds , kernel-team@lists.ubuntu.com X-BeenThere: kernel-team@lists.ubuntu.com X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Kernel team discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , MIME-Version: 1.0 Errors-To: kernel-team-bounces@lists.ubuntu.com Sender: kernel-team-bounces@lists.ubuntu.com This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled block: do not pass disk names as format strings to the linux-3.8.y-queue branch of the 3.8.y.z extended stable tree which can be found at: http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.8.y-queue If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please reply to this email. For more information about the 3.8.y.z tree, see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable Thanks. -Luis ------ From 2df0b287be96ca03fa16a901dd61d4dc2c9ee42e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Kees Cook Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2013 15:01:14 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] 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 Cc: Jens Axboe Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds [ luis: backported to 3.8: adjusted context ] Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques --- block/genhd.c | 2 +- drivers/block/nbd.c | 3 ++- drivers/scsi/osd/osd_uld.c | 2 +- 3 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) -- 1.8.1.2 diff --git a/block/genhd.c b/block/genhd.c index 7dcfdd8..b596dfc 100644 --- a/block/genhd.c +++ b/block/genhd.c @@ -520,7 +520,7 @@ static 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); diff --git a/drivers/block/nbd.c b/drivers/block/nbd.c index eb591fb..0f9262e 100644 --- a/drivers/block/nbd.c +++ b/drivers/block/nbd.c @@ -694,7 +694,8 @@ static int __nbd_ioctl(struct block_device *bdev, struct nbd_device *nbd, queue_flag_set_unlocked(QUEUE_FLAG_DISCARD, nbd->disk->queue); - 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); diff --git a/drivers/scsi/osd/osd_uld.c b/drivers/scsi/osd/osd_uld.c index 4375417..599415e 100644 --- a/drivers/scsi/osd/osd_uld.c +++ b/drivers/scsi/osd/osd_uld.c @@ -493,7 +493,7 @@ static int osd_probe(struct device *dev) oud->class_dev.class = &osd_uld_class; oud->class_dev.parent = dev; oud->class_dev.release = __remove; - error = dev_set_name(&oud->class_dev, disk->disk_name); + error = dev_set_name(&oud->class_dev, "%s", disk->disk_name); if (error) { OSD_ERR("dev_set_name failed => %d\n", error); goto err_put_cdev;