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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>
Wed, 9 Nov 2011 02:10:13 +0000 (13:10 +1100)
commit72fd33aab201054406d4c9354214672681c0c109
treeaac14258b09ac69c4a1b6be6706a6baf7d887a35
parent1f6826a1179f9710c1b729f2700358c6503d8a5b
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