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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>
Mon, 14 Nov 2011 02:58:33 +0000 (13:58 +1100)
commit8bf1846903f26ba84c9f28e696c53766f94c9466
tree721c5ce3d5455ac7382d2b40c47cf5f7f22d4817
parenta7ead32f0da0a04e87dc385fa11c87eab1fde05b
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