[PATCH 5.10 30/63] misc: vmw_vmci: fix kernel info-leak by initializing dbells in vmci_ctx_get_chkpt_doorbells()

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-01-04T16:07:04Z

From: Anant Thazhemadam <anant.thazhemadam@gmail.com>

commit 31dcb6c30a26d32650ce134820f27de3c675a45a upstream.

A kernel-infoleak was reported by syzbot, which was caused because
dbells was left uninitialized.
Using kzalloc() instead of kmalloc() fixes this issue.

Reported-by: syzbot+a79e17c39564bedf0930@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Tested-by: syzbot+a79e17c39564bedf0930@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Signed-off-by: Anant Thazhemadam <anant.thazhemadam@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201122224534.333471-1-anant.thazhemadam@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
drivers/misc/vmw_vmci/vmci_context.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/drivers/misc/vmw_vmci/vmci_context.c
+++ b/drivers/misc/vmw_vmci/vmci_context.c
@@ -743,7 +743,7 @@ static int vmci_ctx_get_chkpt_doorbells(
return VMCI_ERROR_MORE_DATA;
}

- dbells = kmalloc(data_size, GFP_ATOMIC);
+ dbells = kzalloc(data_size, GFP_ATOMIC);
if (!dbells)
return VMCI_ERROR_NO_MEM;