misc: mic: Fix for double fetch security bug in VOP driver
The MIC VOP driver does two successive reads from user space to read a variable length data structure. Kernel memory corruption can result if the data structure changes between the two reads. This patch disallows the chance of this happening. Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=116651 Reported by: Pengfei Wang <wpengfeinudt@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Sudeep Dutt <sudeep.dutt@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Ashutosh Dixit <ashutosh.dixit@intel.com> Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> (backported from commit 9bf292bf) [ luis: apply changes to mic_copy_dp_entry(), in file drivers/misc/mic/host/mic_virtio.c; adjust context ] CVE-2016-5728 Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques@canonical.com> Acked-by: Tim Gardner <tim.gardner@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal@canonical.com>
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