3.11.10.13 -stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me 
know.

------------------

From: Nicholas Bellinger <[email protected]>

This patch changes rd_allocate_sgl_table() to explicitly clear
ramdisk_mcp backend memory pages by passing __GFP_ZERO into
alloc_pages().

This addresses a potential security issue where reading from a
ramdisk_mcp could return sensitive information, and follows what
>= v3.15 does to explicitly clear ramdisk_mcp memory at backend
device initialization time.

[ Note that a different patch to address the same issue went in during
  v3.15-rc1 (commit 4442dc8a), but includes a bunch of other changes that
  don't strictly apply to fixing the bug.

  This is a one-liner that addresses the bug for all <= v3.14 versions. ]

Reported-by: Jorge Daniel Sequeira Matias <[email protected]>
Cc: Jorge Daniel Sequeira Matias <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <[email protected]>
---
 drivers/target/target_core_rd.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/target/target_core_rd.c b/drivers/target/target_core_rd.c
index 51127d15d5c5..d71cdbed413b 100644
--- a/drivers/target/target_core_rd.c
+++ b/drivers/target/target_core_rd.c
@@ -179,7 +179,7 @@ static int rd_build_device_space(struct rd_dev *rd_dev)
                                                - 1;
 
                for (j = 0; j < sg_per_table; j++) {
-                       pg = alloc_pages(GFP_KERNEL, 0);
+                       pg = alloc_pages(GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_ZERO, 0);
                        if (!pg) {
                                pr_err("Unable to allocate scatterlist"
                                        " pages for struct rd_dev_sg_table\n");
-- 
1.9.1

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