Commit ffc8b308 authored by Kees Cook's avatar Kees Cook Committed by Linus Torvalds

block: do not pass disk names as format strings

Disk names may contain arbitrary strings, so they must not be
interpreted as format strings.  It seems that only md allows arbitrary
strings to be used for disk names, but this could allow for a local
memory corruption from uid 0 into ring 0.

CVE-2013-2851
Signed-off-by: default avatarKees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent 542db015
...@@ -512,7 +512,7 @@ static void register_disk(struct gendisk *disk) ...@@ -512,7 +512,7 @@ static void register_disk(struct gendisk *disk)
ddev->parent = disk->driverfs_dev; ddev->parent = disk->driverfs_dev;
dev_set_name(ddev, disk->disk_name); dev_set_name(ddev, "%s", disk->disk_name);
/* delay uevents, until we scanned partition table */ /* delay uevents, until we scanned partition table */
dev_set_uevent_suppress(ddev, 1); dev_set_uevent_suppress(ddev, 1);
......
...@@ -714,7 +714,8 @@ static int __nbd_ioctl(struct block_device *bdev, struct nbd_device *nbd, ...@@ -714,7 +714,8 @@ static int __nbd_ioctl(struct block_device *bdev, struct nbd_device *nbd,
else else
blk_queue_flush(nbd->disk->queue, 0); blk_queue_flush(nbd->disk->queue, 0);
thread = kthread_create(nbd_thread, nbd, nbd->disk->disk_name); thread = kthread_create(nbd_thread, nbd, "%s",
nbd->disk->disk_name);
if (IS_ERR(thread)) { if (IS_ERR(thread)) {
mutex_lock(&nbd->tx_lock); mutex_lock(&nbd->tx_lock);
return PTR_ERR(thread); return PTR_ERR(thread);
......
...@@ -485,7 +485,7 @@ static int osd_probe(struct device *dev) ...@@ -485,7 +485,7 @@ static int osd_probe(struct device *dev)
oud->class_dev.class = &osd_uld_class; oud->class_dev.class = &osd_uld_class;
oud->class_dev.parent = dev; oud->class_dev.parent = dev;
oud->class_dev.release = __remove; oud->class_dev.release = __remove;
error = dev_set_name(&oud->class_dev, disk->disk_name); error = dev_set_name(&oud->class_dev, "%s", disk->disk_name);
if (error) { if (error) {
OSD_ERR("dev_set_name failed => %d\n", error); OSD_ERR("dev_set_name failed => %d\n", error);
goto err_put_cdev; goto err_put_cdev;
......
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