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authorBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>2008-07-14 14:29:49 +1000
committerBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>2008-07-14 14:29:49 +1000
commit11c2d8174ed3dc4f1971564732689b4a39129702 (patch)
treeac00daa548ea8ac24ae7a5c8062312e335ab9858 /drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c
parentcde274c0c789404df8ece3f9e7d6506caf0127e2 (diff)
parentbce7f793daec3e65ec5c5705d2457b81fe7b5725 (diff)
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Merge commit 'origin/HEAD' into test-merge
Manual fixup of include/asm-powerpc/pgtable-ppc64.h
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-rw-r--r--drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c9
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c b/drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c
index a82d2fe..cbf55d5 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c
@@ -207,6 +207,15 @@ int scsi_execute(struct scsi_device *sdev, const unsigned char *cmd,
*/
blk_execute_rq(req->q, NULL, req, 1);
+ /*
+ * Some devices (USB mass-storage in particular) may transfer
+ * garbage data together with a residue indicating that the data
+ * is invalid. Prevent the garbage from being misinterpreted
+ * and prevent security leaks by zeroing out the excess data.
+ */
+ if (unlikely(req->data_len > 0 && req->data_len <= bufflen))
+ memset(buffer + (bufflen - req->data_len), 0, req->data_len);
+
ret = req->errors;
out:
blk_put_request(req);
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