Prevent freeing uninitialized pointer in compat_do_readv_writev
In 32-bit compatibility mode, the error handling for compat_do_readv_writev() may free an uninitialized pointer, potentially leading to all sorts of ugly memory corruption. This is reliably triggerable by unprivileged users by invoking the readv()/writev() syscalls with an invalid iovec pointer. The below patch fixes this to emulate the non-compat version. Introduced by commit b8373363 ("compat: factor out compat_rw_copy_check_uvector from compat_do_readv_writev") Signed-off-by: Dan Rosenberg <dan.j.rosenberg@gmail.com> Cc: stable@kernel.org (2.6.35) Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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