[PATCH 4.16 62/64] vhost: fix info leak due to uninitialized memory

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-06-24T15:39:34Z

From: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>

commit 670ae9caaca467ea1bfd325cb2a5c98ba87f94ad upstream.

struct vhost_msg within struct vhost_msg_node is copied to userspace.
Unfortunately it turns out on 64 bit systems vhost_msg has padding after
type which gcc doesn't initialize, leaking 4 uninitialized bytes to
userspace.

This padding also unfortunately means 32 bit users of this interface are
broken on a 64 bit kernel which will need to be fixed separately.

Fixes: CVE-2018-1118
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reported-by: Kevin Easton <kevin@guarana.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Reported-by: syzbot+87cfa083e727a224754b@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
drivers/vhost/vhost.c | 3 +++
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

--- a/drivers/vhost/vhost.c
+++ b/drivers/vhost/vhost.c
@@ -2345,6 +2345,9 @@ struct vhost_msg_node *vhost_new_msg(str
struct vhost_msg_node *node = kmalloc(sizeof *node, GFP_KERNEL);
if (!node)
return NULL;
+
+ /* Make sure all padding within the structure is initialized. */
+ memset(&node->msg, 0, sizeof node->msg);
node->vq = vq;
node->msg.type = type;
return node;