block: do not pass disk names as format strings
authorKees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Wed, 3 Jul 2013 22:01:14 +0000 (15:01 -0700)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Sat, 13 Jul 2013 18:39:17 +0000 (11:39 -0700)
commitc014eebac770438b946b6512f0961b0dc64ad0f6
tree138d833e526cf747d6f2704c7131da1e651bbcc5
parent179b66310e735a99c56b2a64fda5b3cbb03d3a97
block: do not pass disk names as format strings

commit ffc8b30866879ed9ba62bd0a86fecdbd51cd3d19 upstream.

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: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
block/genhd.c
drivers/block/nbd.c
drivers/scsi/osd/osd_uld.c