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SubjectRe: [PATCH] arch: blackfin: kernel: memory overflow, 'namebuf' length need be more than 256
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On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 12:07 PM, Chen Gang <gang.chen@asianux.com> wrote:
> The 'name' length in decode_address() may be 255, after call d_path()
> successfully.
>
> So for decode_address(), the input 'buf' need be more than 256, or may
> memory overflow.
>
> For simply thinking of, use 'namebuf[512]' instead of 'namebuf[150]'
> which will pass to decode_address() as input 'buf'.
>
> Also better use macro instead of hard code number when processing
> symbols work.
>
>
> Signed-off-by: Chen Gang <gang.chen@asianux.com>
> ---
> arch/blackfin/kernel/trace.c | 4 ++--
> 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/blackfin/kernel/trace.c b/arch/blackfin/kernel/trace.c
> index c36efa0..4fecd3e 100644
> --- a/arch/blackfin/kernel/trace.c
> +++ b/arch/blackfin/kernel/trace.c
> @@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ void decode_address(char *buf, unsigned long address)
> const char *symname;
> char *modname;
> char *delim = ":";
> - char namebuf[128];
> + char namebuf[KSYM_NAME_LEN];
> #endif
>
> buf += sprintf(buf, "<0x%08lx> ", address);
> @@ -845,7 +845,7 @@ void dump_bfin_mem(struct pt_regs *fp)
>
> void show_regs(struct pt_regs *fp)
> {
> - char buf[150];
> + char buf[512];

This will increase stack usage a lot. And this function calls decode_address(),
which allocates another buffer on the stack.

However, as this is in debug code which is (never?) called concurrently, both
buffers can be made static?

> struct irqaction *action;
> unsigned int i;
> unsigned long flags = 0;

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

Geert

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