From ffc8b30866879ed9ba62bd0a86fecdbd51cd3d19 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Kees Cook Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2013 15:01:14 -0700 Subject: block: do not pass disk names as format strings 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 Cc: Jens Axboe Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- block/genhd.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'block/genhd.c') diff --git a/block/genhd.c b/block/genhd.c index e9094b375c05..dadf42b454a3 100644 --- a/block/genhd.c +++ b/block/genhd.c @@ -512,7 +512,7 @@ static void register_disk(struct gendisk *disk) ddev->parent = disk->driverfs_dev; - dev_set_name(ddev, disk->disk_name); + dev_set_name(ddev, "%s", disk->disk_name); /* delay uevents, until we scanned partition table */ dev_set_uevent_suppress(ddev, 1); -- cgit v1.2.3-59-g8ed1b