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loop: prevent information leak after failed read
authorDmitry Monakhov <dmonakhov@openvz.org>
Wed, 28 Sep 2011 00:49:51 +0000 (10:49 +1000)
committerStephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Fri, 30 Sep 2011 04:53:14 +0000 (14:53 +1000)
commit2ca35ab1277dceac0c260aede4a82c03c2d04048
treed24c92b070e8bf5dea21830aeb3dfdede01d4cc9
parentfea09bf1578f01c82fb797a759dda55e0c7d1ec5
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 <dmonakhov@openvz.org>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <>
drivers/block/loop.c