Re: [PATCH] s390: fix info leak in do_sigsegv

[Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>]

On Mon, 23 May 2016 15:43:20 +0200
Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> wrote:

> OK, Martin would prefer a simple patch so here we go.
> ---
> From de1ad037f3181e795ef0e66a61b8fbe1157f66cc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
> Date: Mon, 23 May 2016 15:35:51 +0200
> Subject: [PATCH] s390: fix info leak in do_sigsegv
> 
> Aleksa has reported incorrect si_errno value when stracing task which
> received SIGSEGV:
> [pid 20799] --- SIGSEGV {si_signo=SIGSEGV, si_code=SEGV_MAPERR, si_errno=2510266, si_addr=0x100000000000000}
> 
> The reason seems to be that do_sigsegv is not initializing siginfo
> structure defined on the stack completely so it will leak 4B of
> the previous stack content. Fix it simply by initializing si_errno
> to 0 (same as do_sigbus does already).
> 
> Cc: stable # introduced pre-git times
> Reported-by: Aleksa Sarai <asarai@suse.de>
> Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
> ---
>  arch/s390/mm/fault.c | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/s390/mm/fault.c b/arch/s390/mm/fault.c
> index 7a3144017301..19288c1b36d3 100644
> --- a/arch/s390/mm/fault.c
> +++ b/arch/s390/mm/fault.c
> @@ -250,6 +250,7 @@ static noinline void do_sigsegv(struct pt_regs *regs, int si_code)
> 
>  	report_user_fault(regs, SIGSEGV, 1);
>  	si.si_signo = SIGSEGV;
> +	si.si_errno = 0;
>  	si.si_code = si_code;
>  	si.si_addr = (void __user *)(regs->int_parm_long & __FAIL_ADDR_MASK);
>  	force_sig_info(SIGSEGV, &si, current);

Applied to linux-s390:fixes. Thanks.

-- 
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   Martin.

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