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fs/binfmt_elf.c: allocate initialized memory in fill_thread_core_info()
KMSAN reported uninitialized data being written to disk when dumping core. As a result, several kilobytes of kmalloc memory may be written to the core file and then read by a non-privileged user. Reported-by: sam <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Alexander Potapenko <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]> Acked-by: Kees Cook <[email protected]> Cc: Al Viro <[email protected]> Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <[email protected]> Cc: <[email protected]> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Link: google/kmsan#76 Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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fs/binfmt_elf.c

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@@ -1733,7 +1733,7 @@ static int fill_thread_core_info(struct elf_thread_core_info *t,
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(!regset->active || regset->active(t->task, regset) > 0)) {
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int ret;
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size_t size = regset_size(t->task, regset);
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void *data = kmalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL);
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void *data = kzalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL);
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if (unlikely(!data))
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return 0;
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ret = regset->get(t->task, regset,

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