target: Explicitly clear ramdisk_mcp backend pages
[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 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. Reported-by: Jorge Daniel Sequeira Matias <jdsm@tecnico.ulisboa.pt> Cc: Jorge Daniel Sequeira Matias <jdsm@tecnico.ulisboa.pt> Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org> Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
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