Re: [PATCH] scripts/kallsyms.c: fix potential segfault

[Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>]

On Sun, May 01, 2011 at 11:41:41AM +0800, Xiaochen Wang wrote:
> Description:
> This bug hardly appears during real kernel compiling,
>  because the vmlinux symbols table is huge.
> 
> But we can still catch it under strict condition , as follows.
>    $ echo "c101b97b T do_fork" | ./scripts/kallsyms --all-symbols
>    #include <asm/types.h>
>    ......
>    ......
>    .globl kallsyms_token_table
>            ALGN
>    kallsyms_token_table:
>    Segmentation fault (core dumped)
>    $
> 
> If symbols table is small, all entries in token_profit[0x10000] may
> decrease to 0 after several calls of compress_symbols() in optimize_result().
> In that case, find_best_token() always return 0 and
> best_table[i] is set to "\0\0" and best_table_len[i] is set to 2.
> 
> As a result, expand_symbol(best_table[0]="\0\0", best_table_len[0]=2, buf)
> in write_src() will run in infinite recursion until stack overflows,
> causing segfault.
> 
> This patch checks the find_best_token() return value. If all entries in
> token_profit[0x10000] become 0 according to return value, it breaks the loop
> in optimize_result().
> And expand_symbol() works well when best_table_len[i] is 0.
> 
> 
> Signed-off-by: Xiaochen Wang <wangxiaochen0@gmail.com>
> ---
>  scripts/kallsyms.c |    2 ++
>  1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

Pushed to kbuild-2.6.git#kbuild, thanks.

Michal