From b45c6e76bc2c72f6426c14bed64fdcbc9bf37cb0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andi Kleen Date: Fri, 8 Jan 2010 14:42:52 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] kernel/signal.c: fix kernel information leak with print-fatal-signals=1 When print-fatal-signals is enabled it's possible to dump any memory reachable by the kernel to the log by simply jumping to that address from user space. Or crash the system if there's some hardware with read side effects. The fatal signals handler will dump 16 bytes at the execution address, which is fully controlled by ring 3. In addition when something jumps to a unmapped address there will be up to 16 additional useless page faults, which might be potentially slow (and at least is not very efficient) Fortunately this option is off by default and only there on i386. But fix it by checking for kernel addresses and also stopping when there's a page fault. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Oleg Nesterov Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- kernel/signal.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/kernel/signal.c b/kernel/signal.c index d09692b4037614..934ae5e687b960 100644 --- a/kernel/signal.c +++ b/kernel/signal.c @@ -979,7 +979,8 @@ static void print_fatal_signal(struct pt_regs *regs, int signr) for (i = 0; i < 16; i++) { unsigned char insn; - __get_user(insn, (unsigned char *)(regs->ip + i)); + if (get_user(insn, (unsigned char *)(regs->ip + i))) + break; printk("%02x ", insn); } }