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fs/binfmt_elf.c: allocate initialized memory in fill_thread_core_info()
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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.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200419100848.63472-1-glider@google.com
Link: google/kmsan#76
Signed-off-by: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>
Reported-by: sam <sunhaoyl@outlook.com>
Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
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ramosian-glider authored and sfrothwell committed May 14, 2020
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Expand Up @@ -1729,7 +1729,7 @@ static int fill_thread_core_info(struct elf_thread_core_info *t,
(!regset->active || regset->active(t->task, regset) > 0)) {
int ret;
size_t size = regset_size(t->task, regset);
void *data = kmalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL);
void *data = kzalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL);
if (unlikely(!data))
return 0;
ret = regset->get(t->task, regset,
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