From: Dmitry Monakhov Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2011 08:21:48 +0000 (+0100) Subject: loop: prevent information leak after failed read X-Git-Tag: v3.2-rc3~39^2~7 X-Git-Url: http://git.openpandora.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=3bb9068278ea524581237abadd41377a14717e7d;p=pandora-kernel.git loop: prevent information leak after failed read If read was not fully successful we have to fail whole bio to prevent information leak of old pages ##Testcase_begin dd if=/dev/zero of=./file bs=1M count=1 losetup /dev/loop0 ./file -o 4096 truncate -s 0 ./file # OOps loop offset is now beyond i_size, so read will silently fail. # So bio's pages would not be cleared, may which result in information leak. hexdump -C /dev/loop0 ##testcase_end Signed-off-by: Dmitry Monakhov Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe --- Reading git-diff-tree failed