From: John Blackwood <john.blackwood@ccur.com>
To: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
Subject: [PATCH] kgdb/kdb: A fix for kdb command table expansion
Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2012 15:37:22 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <50C65612.3070604@ccur.com> (raw)
When locally adding in some additional kdb commands, I stumbled
across an issue with the dynamic expansion of the kdb command table.
When the number of kdb commands exceeds the size of the statically
allocated kdb_base_commands[] array, additional space is allocated in
the kdb_register_repeat() routine.
The unused portion of the newly allocated array was not being initialized
to zero properly and this would result in segfaults when help '?' was
executed or when a search for a non-existing command would traverse the
command table beyond the end of valid command entries and then attempt
to use the non-zeroed area as actual command entries.
Signed-off-by: John Blackwood <john.blackwood@ccur.com>
Index: b/kernel/debug/kdb/kdb_main.c
===================================================================
--- a/kernel/debug/kdb/kdb_main.c
+++ b/kernel/debug/kdb/kdb_main.c
@@ -3341,7 +3341,7 @@ int kdb_register_repeat(char *cmd,
(kdb_max_commands - KDB_BASE_CMD_MAX) * sizeof(*new));
kfree(kdb_commands);
}
- memset(new + kdb_max_commands, 0,
+ memset(new + kdb_max_commands - KDB_BASE_CMD_MAX, 0,
kdb_command_extend * sizeof(*new));
kdb_commands = new;
kp = kdb_commands + kdb_max_commands - KDB_BASE_CMD_MAX;
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