ext4: fix leaking uninitialized memory in fast-commit journal
authorEric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
Sun, 6 Nov 2022 22:48:37 +0000 (14:48 -0800)
committerTheodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Fri, 9 Dec 2022 02:49:24 +0000 (21:49 -0500)
When space at the end of fast-commit journal blocks is unused, make sure
to zero it out so that uninitialized memory is not leaked to disk.

Fixes: aa75f4d3daae ("ext4: main fast-commit commit path")
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # v5.10+
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221106224841.279231-4-ebiggers@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
fs/ext4/fast_commit.c

index da0c8228cf9c3d5d400778d9872d97838f83507d..1e8be05542396851e2a3fcffe9096289349e5aa9 100644 (file)
@@ -737,6 +737,9 @@ static u8 *ext4_fc_reserve_space(struct super_block *sb, int len, u32 *crc)
                *crc = ext4_chksum(sbi, *crc, tl, EXT4_FC_TAG_BASE_LEN);
        if (pad_len > 0)
                ext4_fc_memzero(sb, tl + 1, pad_len, crc);
+       /* Don't leak uninitialized memory in the unused last byte. */
+       *((u8 *)(tl + 1) + pad_len) = 0;
+
        ext4_fc_submit_bh(sb, false);
 
        ret = jbd2_fc_get_buf(EXT4_SB(sb)->s_journal, &bh);
@@ -793,6 +796,8 @@ static int ext4_fc_write_tail(struct super_block *sb, u32 crc)
        dst += sizeof(tail.fc_tid);
        tail.fc_crc = cpu_to_le32(crc);
        ext4_fc_memcpy(sb, dst, &tail.fc_crc, sizeof(tail.fc_crc), NULL);
+       dst += sizeof(tail.fc_crc);
+       memset(dst, 0, bsize - off); /* Don't leak uninitialized memory. */
 
        ext4_fc_submit_bh(sb, true);