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drivers/cdrom/cdrom.c: use kzalloc() for failing hardware

In drivers/cdrom/cdrom.c mmc_ioctl_cdrom_read_data() allocates a memory
area with kmalloc in line 2885.

2885 cgc->buffer = kmalloc(blocksize, GFP_KERNEL);
2886 if (cgc->buffer == NULL)
2887 return -ENOMEM;

In line 2908 we can find the copy_to_user function:

2908 if (!ret && copy_to_user(arg, cgc->buffer, blocksize))

The cgc->buffer is never cleaned and initialized before this function.
If ret = 0 with the previous basic block, it's possible to display some
memory bytes in kernel space from userspace.

When we read a block from the disk it normally fills the ->buffer but if
the drive is malfunctioning there is a chance that it would only be
partially filled. The result is an leak information to userspace.

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

authored by

Jonathan Salwan and committed by
Linus Torvalds
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drivers/cdrom/cdrom.c
··· 2882 2882 if (lba < 0) 2883 2883 return -EINVAL; 2884 2884 2885 - cgc->buffer = kmalloc(blocksize, GFP_KERNEL); 2885 + cgc->buffer = kzalloc(blocksize, GFP_KERNEL); 2886 2886 if (cgc->buffer == NULL) 2887 2887 return -ENOMEM; 2888 2888