From: Dmitry Monakhov Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2011 08:21:48 +0000 (+0100) Subject: loop: prevent information leak after failed read X-Git-Url: http://drtracing.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=3bb9068278ea524581237abadd41377a14717e7d;p=deliverable%2Flinux.git loop: prevent information leak after failed read If read was not fully successful we have to fail whole bio to prevent information leak of old pages ##Testcase_begin dd if=/dev/zero of=./file bs=1M count=1 losetup /dev/loop0 ./file -o 4096 truncate -s 0 ./file # OOps loop offset is now beyond i_size, so read will silently fail. # So bio's pages would not be cleared, may which result in information leak. hexdump -C /dev/loop0 ##testcase_end Signed-off-by: Dmitry Monakhov Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe --- diff --git a/drivers/block/loop.c b/drivers/block/loop.c index 3d806820280e..0d567397c254 100644 --- a/drivers/block/loop.c +++ b/drivers/block/loop.c @@ -372,7 +372,8 @@ do_lo_receive(struct loop_device *lo, if (retval < 0) return retval; - + if (retval != bvec->bv_len) + return -EIO; return 0; }