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Michal Hocko
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getxattr uses vmalloc to allocate memory if kzalloc fails. This is filled by vfs_getxattr and then copied to the userspace. vmalloc, however, doesn't zero out the memory so if the specific implementation of the xattr handler is sloppy we can theoretically expose a kernel memory. There is no real sign this is really the case but let's make sure this will not happen and use vzalloc instead. Fixes: 779302e6 ("fs/xattr.c:getxattr(): improve handling of allocation failures") Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170306103327.2766-1-mhocko@kernel.org Acked-by:Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Reported-by: