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Subject: FAILED: patch "[PATCH] ubifs: Don't leak kernel memory to the MTD" failed to apply to 3.18-stable tree
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The patch below does not apply to the 3.18-stable tree.
If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm
tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit
id to <stable@vger.kernel.org>.

thanks,

greg k-h

------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------

>>From 4acadda74ff8b949c448c0282765ae747e088c87 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2017 16:21:44 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] ubifs: Don't leak kernel memory to the MTD

When UBIFS prepares data structures which will be written to the MTD it
ensues that their lengths are multiple of 8. Since it uses kmalloc() the
padded bytes are left uninitialized and we leak a few bytes of kernel
memory to the MTD.
To make sure that all bytes are initialized, let's switch to kzalloc().
Kzalloc() is fine in this case because the buffers are not huge and in
the IO path the performance bottleneck is anyway the MTD.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 1e51764a3c2a ("UBIFS: add new flash file system")
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Reviewed-by: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>

diff --git a/fs/ubifs/journal.c b/fs/ubifs/journal.c
index 419c79ff377e..9f356432f35f 100644
--- a/fs/ubifs/journal.c
+++ b/fs/ubifs/journal.c
@@ -572,7 +572,7 @@ int ubifs_jnl_update(struct ubifs_info *c, const struct inode *dir,
 	/* Make sure to also account for extended attributes */
 	len += host_ui->data_len;
 
-	dent = kmalloc(len, GFP_NOFS);
+	dent = kzalloc(len, GFP_NOFS);
 	if (!dent)
 		return -ENOMEM;
 
@@ -968,7 +968,7 @@ int ubifs_jnl_xrename(struct ubifs_info *c, const struct inode *fst_dir,
 	if (twoparents)
 		len += plen;
 
-	dent1 = kmalloc(len, GFP_NOFS);
+	dent1 = kzalloc(len, GFP_NOFS);
 	if (!dent1)
 		return -ENOMEM;
 
@@ -1116,7 +1116,7 @@ int ubifs_jnl_rename(struct ubifs_info *c, const struct inode *old_dir,
 	len = aligned_dlen1 + aligned_dlen2 + ALIGN(ilen, 8) + ALIGN(plen, 8);
 	if (move)
 		len += plen;
-	dent = kmalloc(len, GFP_NOFS);
+	dent = kzalloc(len, GFP_NOFS);
 	if (!dent)
 		return -ENOMEM;
 
@@ -1498,7 +1498,7 @@ int ubifs_jnl_delete_xattr(struct ubifs_info *c, const struct inode *host,
 	hlen = host_ui->data_len + UBIFS_INO_NODE_SZ;
 	len = aligned_xlen + UBIFS_INO_NODE_SZ + ALIGN(hlen, 8);
 
-	xent = kmalloc(len, GFP_NOFS);
+	xent = kzalloc(len, GFP_NOFS);
 	if (!xent)
 		return -ENOMEM;
 
@@ -1605,7 +1605,7 @@ int ubifs_jnl_change_xattr(struct ubifs_info *c, const struct inode *inode,
 	aligned_len1 = ALIGN(len1, 8);
 	aligned_len = aligned_len1 + ALIGN(len2, 8);
 
-	ino = kmalloc(aligned_len, GFP_NOFS);
+	ino = kzalloc(aligned_len, GFP_NOFS);
 	if (!ino)
 		return -ENOMEM;