sysfs: make sure read buffer is zeroed
13c589d5 ("sysfs: use seq_file when reading regular files") switched sysfs from custom read implementation to seq_file to enable later transition to kernfs. After the change, the buffer passed to ->show() is acquired through seq_get_buf(); unfortunately, this introduces a subtle behavior change. Before the commit, the buffer passed to ->show() was always zero as it was allocated using get_zeroed_page(). Because seq_file doesn't clear buffers on allocation and neither does seq_get_buf(), after the commit, depending on the behavior of ->show(), we may end up exposing uninitialized data to userland thus possibly altering userland visible behavior and leaking information. Fix it by explicitly clearing the buffer. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Reported-by: Ron <ron@debian.org> Fixes: 13c589d5 ("sysfs: use seq_file when reading regular files") Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 3.13+ Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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