fs/binfmt_elf.c: allocate initialized memory in fill_thread_core_info()
commit 1d605416 upstream. 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> 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> [bwh: Backported to 3.16: adjust context] Signed-off-by:
Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
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