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| author | Tejun Heo | 2008-02-14 02:32:07 +0100 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds | 2008-02-26 16:42:37 +0100 |
| commit | cf3680b90c7842cf91ed857ac4528f4e057da366 (patch) | |
| tree | f73af36b208fab34620808f0075cc54f51cfdfb0 /kernel/printk.c | |
| parent | Linux 2.6.25-rc3 (diff) | |
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printk: fix possible printk overrun
printk recursion detection prepends message to printk_buf and offsets
printk_buf when actual message is printed but it forgets to trim buffer
length accordingly. This can result in overrun in extreme cases. Fix it.
[ mingo@elte.hu:
bug was introduced by me via:
commit 32a76006683f7b28ae3cc491da37716e002f198e
Author: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Date: Fri Jan 25 21:07:58 2008 +0100
printk: make printk more robust by not allowing recursion
]
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/printk.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/printk.c | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/printk.c b/kernel/printk.c index bee36100f110..9adc2a473e6e 100644 --- a/kernel/printk.c +++ b/kernel/printk.c @@ -666,7 +666,7 @@ asmlinkage int vprintk(const char *fmt, va_list args) } /* Emit the output into the temporary buffer */ printed_len += vscnprintf(printk_buf + printed_len, - sizeof(printk_buf), fmt, args); + sizeof(printk_buf) - printed_len, fmt, args); /* * Copy the output into log_buf. If the caller didn't provide |