From patchwork Wed Mar 30 23:51:21 2016 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: Kamal Mostafa X-Patchwork-Id: 603746 Return-Path: X-Original-To: incoming@patchwork.ozlabs.org Delivered-To: patchwork-incoming@bilbo.ozlabs.org Received: from huckleberry.canonical.com (huckleberry.canonical.com [91.189.94.19]) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3qb4FN6Tqyz9sBm; Thu, 31 Mar 2016 10:52:24 +1100 (AEDT) Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=huckleberry.canonical.com) by huckleberry.canonical.com with esmtp (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1alPuO-0004fW-Iz; Wed, 30 Mar 2016 23:52:20 +0000 Received: from youngberry.canonical.com ([91.189.89.112]) by huckleberry.canonical.com with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1alPtW-00045j-9D for kernel-team@lists.ubuntu.com; Wed, 30 Mar 2016 23:51:26 +0000 Received: from 1.general.kamal.us.vpn ([10.172.68.52] helo=fourier) by youngberry.canonical.com with esmtpsa (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1alPtV-0007PB-HN; Wed, 30 Mar 2016 23:51:25 +0000 Received: from kamal by fourier with local (Exim 4.86_2) (envelope-from ) id 1alPtS-0000Rl-SD; Wed, 30 Mar 2016 16:51:22 -0700 From: Kamal Mostafa To: Nikolay Borisov Subject: [4.2.y-ckt stable] Patch "quota: Fix possible GPF due to uninitialised pointers" has been added to the 4.2.y-ckt tree Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2016 16:51:21 -0700 Message-Id: <1459381881-1679-1-git-send-email-kamal@canonical.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.7.4 X-Extended-Stable: 4.2 Cc: Kamal Mostafa , Jan Kara , kernel-team@lists.ubuntu.com X-BeenThere: kernel-team@lists.ubuntu.com X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Kernel team discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , MIME-Version: 1.0 Errors-To: kernel-team-bounces@lists.ubuntu.com Sender: kernel-team-bounces@lists.ubuntu.com This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled quota: Fix possible GPF due to uninitialised pointers to the linux-4.2.y-queue branch of the 4.2.y-ckt extended stable tree which can be found at: http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git/ubuntu/linux.git/log/?h=linux-4.2.y-queue This patch is scheduled to be released in version 4.2.8-ckt7. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please reply to this email. For more information about the 4.2.y-ckt tree, see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable Thanks. -Kamal ---8<------------------------------------------------------------ From 82e58547908e61564531f123deb5e50283c63e47 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Nikolay Borisov Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2016 10:54:57 +0100 Subject: quota: Fix possible GPF due to uninitialised pointers commit ab73ef46398e2c0159f3a71de834586422d2a44a upstream. When dqget() in __dquot_initialize() fails e.g. due to IO error, __dquot_initialize() will pass an array of uninitialized pointers to dqput_all() and thus can lead to deference of random data. Fix the problem by properly initializing the array. Signed-off-by: Nikolay Borisov Signed-off-by: Jan Kara Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa --- fs/quota/dquot.c | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) -- 2.7.4 diff --git a/fs/quota/dquot.c b/fs/quota/dquot.c index 20d1f74..19c777a 100644 --- a/fs/quota/dquot.c +++ b/fs/quota/dquot.c @@ -1393,7 +1393,7 @@ static int dquot_active(const struct inode *inode) static void __dquot_initialize(struct inode *inode, int type) { int cnt, init_needed = 0; - struct dquot **dquots, *got[MAXQUOTAS]; + struct dquot **dquots, *got[MAXQUOTAS] = {}; struct super_block *sb = inode->i_sb; qsize_t rsv; @@ -1408,7 +1408,6 @@ static void __dquot_initialize(struct inode *inode, int type) kprojid_t projid; int rc; - got[cnt] = NULL; if (type != -1 && cnt != type) continue; /*