Prevent freeing uninitialized pointer in compat_do_readv_writev

In 32-bit compatibility mode, the error handling for
compat_do_readv_writev() may free an uninitialized pointer, potentially
leading to all sorts of ugly memory corruption.  This is reliably
triggerable by unprivileged users by invoking the readv()/writev()
syscalls with an invalid iovec pointer.  The below patch fixes this to
emulate the non-compat version.

Introduced by commit b83733639a49 ("compat: factor out
compat_rw_copy_check_uvector from compat_do_readv_writev")

Signed-off-by: Dan Rosenberg <dan.j.rosenberg@gmail.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org (2.6.35)
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

diff --git a/fs/compat.c b/fs/compat.c
index 718c706..0644a15 100644 (file)
--- a/fs/compat.c
+++ b/fs/compat.c
@@ -1153,7 +1153,7 @@ static ssize_t compat_do_readv_writev(int type, struct file *file,
 {
        compat_ssize_t tot_len;
        struct iovec iovstack[UIO_FASTIOV];
-       struct iovec *iov;
+       struct iovec *iov = iovstack;
        ssize_t ret;
        io_fn_t fn;
        iov_fn_t fnv;