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    floppy: Do not copy a kernel pointer to user memory in FDGETPRM ioctl · 04bc4dd8
    Andy Whitcroft authored
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     upstream.
    
    The final field of a floppy_struct is the field "name", which is a pointer
    to a string in kernel memory.  The kernel pointer should not be copied to
    user memory.  The FDGETPRM ioctl copies a floppy_struct to user memory,
    including this "name" field.  This pointer cannot be used by the user
    and it will leak a kernel address to user-space, which will reveal the
    location of kernel code and data and undermine KASLR protection.
    
    Model this code after the compat ioctl which copies the returned data
    to a previously cleared temporary structure on the stack (excluding the
    name pointer) and copy out to userspace from there.  As we already have
    an inparam union with an appropriate member and that memory is already
    cleared even for read only calls make use of that as a temporary store.
    
    Based on an initial patch by Brian Belleville.
    
    CVE-2018-7755
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAndy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
    Broke up long line.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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