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 <sunhaoyl@outlook.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200419100848.63472-1-glider@google.com
Link: https://github.com/google/kmsan/issues/76
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

diff --git a/fs/binfmt_elf.c b/fs/binfmt_elf.c
index 13f25e241ac46cbd2f5ffa23de45e60a035a0c1a..25d489bc9453330697b70af11bfa7c077883321d 100644 (file)
--- a/fs/binfmt_elf.c
+++ b/fs/binfmt_elf.c
@@ -1733,7 +1733,7 @@ static int fill_thread_core_info(struct elf_thread_core_info *t,
                    (!regset->active || regset->active(t->task, regset) > 0)) {
                        int ret;
                        size_t size = regset_size(t->task, regset);
-                       void *data = kmalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL);
+                       void *data = kzalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL);
                        if (unlikely(!data))
                                return 0;
                        ret = regset->get(t->task, regset,