[PATCH 03/13] vmcore: fill unused part of buffer for ELF headers with 0
HATAYAMA Daisuke
d.hatayama at jp.fujitsu.com
Thu Feb 14 05:11:59 EST 2013
Via mmap() we export the range [elfcorebuf_sz, roundup(elfcorebuf_sz,
PAGE_SIZE)] to user-space. We need to fill this range with 0.
Signed-off-by: HATAYAMA Daisuke <d.hatayama at jp.fujitsu.com>
---
fs/proc/vmcore.c | 5 +++++
1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/fs/proc/vmcore.c b/fs/proc/vmcore.c
index 5010ead..43d338a 100644
--- a/fs/proc/vmcore.c
+++ b/fs/proc/vmcore.c
@@ -328,6 +328,11 @@ static int __init merge_note_headers_elf64(char *elfptr, size_t *elfsz,
*elfsz = *elfsz - i;
memmove(tmp, tmp+i, ((*elfsz)-sizeof(Elf64_Ehdr)-sizeof(Elf64_Phdr)));
+ /* Fill unused part with zero */
+ memset(elfptr + sizeof(Elf64_Ehdr) +
+ (ehdr_ptr->e_phnum - nr_ptnote + 1) * sizeof(Elf64_Phdr), 0,
+ (nr_ptnote - 1) * sizeof(Elf64_Phdr));
+
/* Modify e_phnum to reflect merged headers. */
ehdr_ptr->e_phnum = ehdr_ptr->e_phnum - nr_ptnote + 1;
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