From: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
To: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>,
Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
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>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] vsprintf: Prevent crash when dereferencing invalid pointers
Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2018 14:56:25 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1522756585.21176.316.camel@linux.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180403115216.mgq3omvl4up24uic@pathway.suse.cz>
On Tue, 2018-04-03 at 13:52 +0200, Petr Mladek wrote:
> On Tue 2018-04-03 10:12:37, Sergey Senozhatsky wrote:
> > On (04/02/18 17:15), Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Hmm, I have never seen the error code in this form.
> > >
> > > We have limited space to print it and error numbers currently can
> > > be up
> > > to 0xfff (4095). So, I have no better idea how to squeeze them
> > > while
> > > thinking that "(efault)" is much harder to parse in case of error
> >
> > 'efault' looks to me like a misspelled 'default', for some reason.
>
> I wonder if (-efault) would help a bit.
It's 9 characters, not going to satisfy sizeof(void *) * 2 on 32-bit
systems.
> Even better might be (-EFAULT). But then it would be better to use
> (NULL). It already was but it was explicitly changed to the lowercase
> variant by the commit 0f4f81dce93774a447da3c ("vsprintf: factorize
> "(null)" string").
--
Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Intel Finland Oy
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-04-03 11:56 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
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 [this message]
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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