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SubjectRe: [PATCH] printk: fix buffer overflow potential for print_text()
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Sven Schnelle <svens@linux.ibm.com> writes:

> John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de> writes:
>
>> On 2021-01-22, Sven Schnelle <svens@linux.ibm.com> wrote:

> I was able to reproduce it in a virtual machine where i have a few more
> ways to debug. What i got was:
>
> 01: -> 00000000001B8814" MVI 92001000 >> 000000000163F1CD CC 2
>
> That's a watchpoint telling me that the code at 0x1b8814 wants to store
> one byte to 0x163f1cd, which is the second byte of console_drivers.
>
> gdb tells me about 0x1b8814:
>
> (gdb) list *(0x1b8814)
> 0x1b8814 is in record_print_text (/home/svens/ibmgit/linux/kernel/printk/printk.c:1402).
> 1397 * If a buffer was provided, it will be terminated. Space for the
> 1398 * string terminator is guaranteed to be available. The terminator is
> 1399 * not counted in the return value.
> 1400 */
> 1401 if (buf_size > 0)
> 1402 text[len] = 0;

I don't think i have really understood how all the printk magic works,
but using r->text_buf[len] seems to be the correct place to put the zero byte
in that case?

> 1403
> 1404 return len;
> 1405 }
> 1406
>

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