commit cf01fb9985e8deb25ccf0ea54d916b8871ae0e62
author Chris Salls <salls@cs.ucsb.edu> Fri Apr 07 23:48:11 2017 -0700
committer Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Sat Apr 08 10:57:55 2017 -0700
tree c293d0826ee582a64c3af690ec92fb2c10a4f127
parent 425fffd886bae3d127a08fa6a17f2e31e24ed7ff

mm/mempolicy.c: fix error handling in set_mempolicy and mbind.

In the case that compat_get_bitmap fails we do not want to copy the
bitmap to the user as it will contain uninitialized stack data and leak
sensitive data.

Signed-off-by: Chris Salls <salls@cs.ucsb.edu>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

mm/mempolicy.c

diff --git a/mm/mempolicy.c b/mm/mempolicy.c
index 75b2745..37d0b33 100644
--- a/mm/mempolicy.c
+++ b/mm/mempolicy.c
@@ -1529,7 +1529,6 @@
 COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE3(set_mempolicy, int, mode, compat_ulong_t __user *, nmask,
 		       compat_ulong_t, maxnode)
 {
-	long err = 0;
 	unsigned long __user *nm = NULL;
 	unsigned long nr_bits, alloc_size;
 	DECLARE_BITMAP(bm, MAX_NUMNODES);
@@ -1538,14 +1537,13 @@
 	alloc_size = ALIGN(nr_bits, BITS_PER_LONG) / 8;
 
 	if (nmask) {
-		err = compat_get_bitmap(bm, nmask, nr_bits);
+		if (compat_get_bitmap(bm, nmask, nr_bits))
+			return -EFAULT;
 		nm = compat_alloc_user_space(alloc_size);
-		err |= copy_to_user(nm, bm, alloc_size);
+		if (copy_to_user(nm, bm, alloc_size))
+			return -EFAULT;
 	}
 
-	if (err)
-		return -EFAULT;
-
 	return sys_set_mempolicy(mode, nm, nr_bits+1);
 }
 
@@ -1553,7 +1551,6 @@
 		       compat_ulong_t, mode, compat_ulong_t __user *, nmask,
 		       compat_ulong_t, maxnode, compat_ulong_t, flags)
 {
-	long err = 0;
 	unsigned long __user *nm = NULL;
 	unsigned long nr_bits, alloc_size;
 	nodemask_t bm;
@@ -1562,14 +1559,13 @@
 	alloc_size = ALIGN(nr_bits, BITS_PER_LONG) / 8;
 
 	if (nmask) {
-		err = compat_get_bitmap(nodes_addr(bm), nmask, nr_bits);
+		if (compat_get_bitmap(nodes_addr(bm), nmask, nr_bits))
+			return -EFAULT;
 		nm = compat_alloc_user_space(alloc_size);
-		err |= copy_to_user(nm, nodes_addr(bm), alloc_size);
+		if (copy_to_user(nm, nodes_addr(bm), alloc_size))
+			return -EFAULT;
 	}
 
-	if (err)
-		return -EFAULT;
-
 	return sys_mbind(start, len, mode, nm, nr_bits+1, flags);
 }