Eric Biggers
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commita65cab7d7fupstream. Reading from a debugfs file at a nonzero position, without first reading at position 0, leaks uninitialized memory to userspace. It's a bit tricky to do this, since lseek() and pread() aren't allowed on these files, and write() doesn't update the position on them. But writing to them with splice() *does* update the position: #define _GNU_SOURCE 1 #include <fcntl.h> #include <stdio.h> #include <unistd.h> int main() { int pipes[2], fd, n, i; char buf[32]; pipe(pipes); write(pipes[1], "0", 1); fd = open("/sys/kernel/debug/fault_around_bytes", O_RDWR); splice(pipes[0], NULL, fd, NULL, 1, 0); n = read(fd, buf, sizeof(buf)); for (i = 0; i < n; i++) printf("%02x", buf[i]); printf("\n"); } Output: 5a5a5a5a5a5a5a5a5a5a5a5a5a5a5a5a5a5a5a5a5a5a5a30 Fix the infoleak by making simple_attr_read() always fill simple_attr::get_buf if it hasn't been filled yet. Reported-by: syzbot+fcab69d1ada3e8d6f06b@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Reported-by: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com> Fixes:acaefc25d2("[PATCH] libfs: add simple attribute files") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com> Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200308023849.988264-1-ebiggers@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.