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loop: prevent information leak after failed read
authorDmitry Monakhov <dmonakhov@openvz.org>
Tue, 8 Nov 2011 00:20:06 +0000 (11:20 +1100)
committerStephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Fri, 11 Nov 2011 03:20:40 +0000 (14:20 +1100)
commit3974ae5a3b889009326e0cb957dba29df63e46b2
tree8458a11033ec86fefc5e86c34e62515f2fbd136c
parentea133faf80fd1bf5c05ec34d45a5ea2c3dae5dc8
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 <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
drivers/block/loop.c