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Prevent freeing uninitialized pointer in compat_do_readv_writev

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In 32-bit compatibility mode, the error handling for
compat_do_readv_writev() may free an uninitialized pointer, potentially
leading to all sorts of ugly memory corruption.  This is reliably
triggerable by unprivileged users by invoking the readv()/writev()
syscalls with an invalid iovec pointer.  The below patch fixes this to
emulate the non-compat version.

Introduced by commit b83733639a49 ("compat: factor out
compat_rw_copy_check_uvector from compat_do_readv_writev")

Signed-off-by: Dan Rosenberg <dan.j.rosenberg@gmail.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org (2.6.35)
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Dan Rosenberg 2010-09-22 14:32:56 -04:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent c79bd89282
commit 767b68e969
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@ -1153,7 +1153,7 @@ static ssize_t compat_do_readv_writev(int type, struct file *file,
{
compat_ssize_t tot_len;
struct iovec iovstack[UIO_FASTIOV];
struct iovec *iov;
struct iovec *iov = iovstack;
ssize_t ret;
io_fn_t fn;
iov_fn_t fnv;