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From: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
To: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>,
	"Tobin C . Harding" <me@tobin.cc>, Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>,
	Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
	Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] vsprintf: Prevent crash when dereferencing invalid pointers
Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2018 15:09:03 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1521119343.10722.665.camel@linux.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180314140947.rs3b6i5gguzzu5wi@pathway.suse.cz>

On Wed, 2018-03-14 at 15:09 +0100, Petr Mladek wrote:
> We already prevent crash when dereferencing some obviously broken
> pointers. But the handling is not consistent. Sometimes we print
> "(null)"
> only for pure NULL pointer, sometimes for pointers in the first
> page and 


> sometimes also for pointers in the last page (error codes).

I still think that printing a hex value of the error code is much better
than some odd "(efault)".


-- 
Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Intel Finland Oy

  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-03-15 13:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 87+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-02-16 21:07 [PATCH v2 1/9] lib/test_printf: Mark big constant with ULL Andy Shevchenko
2018-02-16 21:07 ` [PATCH v2 2/9] lib/vsprintf: Make dec_spec global Andy Shevchenko
2018-04-11  9:44   ` Petr Mladek
2018-02-16 21:07 ` [PATCH v2 3/9] lib/vsprintf: Make strspec global Andy Shevchenko
2018-04-11  9:44   ` Petr Mladek
2018-02-16 21:07 ` [PATCH v2 4/9] lib/vsprintf: Make flag_spec global Andy Shevchenko
2018-04-11  9:45   ` Petr Mladek
2018-02-16 21:07 ` [PATCH v2 5/9] lib/vsprintf: Move pointer_string() upper Andy Shevchenko
2018-04-11  9:45   ` Petr Mladek
2018-02-16 21:07 ` [PATCH v2 6/9] lib/vsprintf: Deduplicate pointer_string() Andy Shevchenko
2018-04-11  9:46   ` Petr Mladek
2018-02-16 21:07 ` [PATCH v2 7/9] lib/vsprintf: Replace space with '_' before crng is ready Andy Shevchenko
2018-02-20  2:57   ` [此邮件可能存在风险] " Yang, Shunyong
2018-04-11  9:47   ` Petr Mladek
2018-02-16 21:07 ` [PATCH v2 8/9] lib/vsprintf: Remove useless NULL checks Andy Shevchenko
2018-02-27 15:50   ` Petr Mladek
2018-02-27 17:35     ` Andy Shevchenko
2018-02-28 10:04       ` Petr Mladek
2018-02-28 10:42         ` Andy Shevchenko
2018-03-02 12:51           ` Petr Mladek
2018-03-02 12:53             ` [PATCH] vsprintf: Make "null" pointer dereference more robust Petr Mladek
2018-03-02 14:17               ` Andy Shevchenko
2018-03-05 14:53                 ` Petr Mladek
2018-03-29 15:13                 ` Petr Mladek
2018-03-29 16:11                   ` Joe Perches
2018-03-05 15:16               ` Rasmus Villemoes
2018-03-05 15:25                 ` Andy Shevchenko
2018-03-06  9:25                 ` Petr Mladek
2018-03-06  9:56                   ` Andy Shevchenko
2018-03-07 15:52                     ` Petr Mladek
2018-03-07 18:18                       ` Andy Shevchenko
2018-03-07 18:34                       ` Linus Torvalds
2018-03-08 14:18                         ` Petr Mladek
2018-03-08 16:45                           ` Linus Torvalds
2018-03-08 17:26                             ` Linus Torvalds
2018-03-09 15:01                               ` Petr Mladek
2018-03-09 19:05                                 ` Linus Torvalds
2018-03-14 14:09                                   ` [PATCH v3] vsprintf: Prevent crash when dereferencing invalid pointers Petr Mladek
2018-03-14 22:12                                     ` Rasmus Villemoes
2018-03-15 15:07                                       ` Petr Mladek
2018-03-15 17:07                                         ` Steven Rostedt
2018-03-15 17:06                                       ` Steven Rostedt
2018-03-15  0:57                                     ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2018-03-15  7:58                                     ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2018-03-15  8:03                                       ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2018-03-15 17:01                                         ` Steven Rostedt
2018-03-16  1:18                                           ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2018-03-16  1:35                                             ` Linus Torvalds
2018-03-16  5:53                                               ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2018-03-16  8:55                                                 ` Petr Mladek
2018-03-16 14:32                                                   ` Steven Rostedt
2018-03-17  1:29                                                   ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2018-03-15 13:07                                       ` Andy Shevchenko
2018-03-15 13:09                                     ` Andy Shevchenko [this message]
2018-03-15 15:26                                       ` Petr Mladek
2018-03-16 18:19                                         ` Andy Shevchenko
2018-03-29 14:53                                           ` Petr Mladek
2018-04-02 14:15                                             ` Andy Shevchenko
2018-04-03  1:12                                               ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2018-04-03 11:52                                                 ` Petr Mladek
2018-04-03 11:56                                                   ` Andy Shevchenko
2018-04-03 13:57                                                   ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2018-04-03 11:46                                               ` Petr Mladek
2018-04-03 11:54                                                 ` Andy Shevchenko
2018-04-03 13:13                                                   ` Petr Mladek
2018-04-03 13:40                                                     ` Andy Shevchenko
2018-04-03 14:50                                                       ` Petr Mladek
2018-03-15 14:48                                     ` kbuild test robot
2018-03-15 20:26                                     ` kbuild test robot
2018-03-06 18:11                   ` [PATCH 1/2] vsprintf: distinguish between (null), (err) and (invalid) pointer derefs Adam Borowski
2018-03-06 18:11                     ` [PATCH 2/2] vsprintf: don't dereference pointers to the first or last page Adam Borowski
2018-03-07 13:22                       ` Andy Shevchenko
2018-03-07 13:17                     ` [PATCH 1/2] vsprintf: distinguish between (null), (err) and (invalid) pointer derefs Andy Shevchenko
2018-03-07 13:42                       ` Adam Borowski
2018-03-07 13:29                     ` Andy Shevchenko
2018-03-02 14:15             ` [PATCH v2 8/9] lib/vsprintf: Remove useless NULL checks Andy Shevchenko
2018-03-05 14:57               ` Petr Mladek
2018-02-28 10:44         ` Andy Shevchenko
2018-03-01 14:56         ` Andy Shevchenko
2018-02-16 21:07 ` [PATCH v2 9/9] lib/vsprintf: Mark expected switch fall-through Andy Shevchenko
2018-04-11  9:47   ` Petr Mladek
2018-02-18 12:58 ` [PATCH v2 1/9] lib/test_printf: Mark big constant with ULL Luc Van Oostenryck
2018-02-18 14:20   ` Andy Shevchenko
2018-02-19 15:24   ` Andy Shevchenko
2018-04-11  9:41     ` Petr Mladek
2018-02-18 21:52 ` Tobin C. Harding
2018-02-18 23:55   ` Andy Shevchenko

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