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From: Michal Piotrowski <michal.k.k.piotrowski@gmail.com>
To: Alexander Nyberg <alexn@telia.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.13-mm3 [OOPS] vfs, page_owner, full reproductively, badness in vsnprintf
Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2005 23:13:21 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <6bffcb0e05091214133c189d05@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050912175433.GA8574@localhost.localdomain>

Hi,

On 12/09/05, Alexander Nyberg <alexn@telia.com> wrote:
> 
> Gah, I'm such a fantastic programmer.
> 
> I don't know what mc is up to but the error checking in read_page_owner
> is flawed wrt snprintf which could cause the 'size' argument to snprintf
> to become negative and if so overwrite beyond 'buf'.
> 
> Again, I fail to see how mc causes this to happen, but this fixes it
> by proper error checking.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alexander Nyberg <alexn@telia.com>

Thanks, patch solved problem.
Here is version, that clean apply on 2.6.13-mm3. Can you review it?

Regards,
Michal Piotrowski

Signed-off-by: Michal K. K. Piotrowski <michal.k.k.piotrowski@gmail.com>

diff -uprN -X linux-mm-clean/Documentation/dontdiff
linux-mm-clean/fs/proc/proc_misc.c linux-mm/fs/proc/proc_misc.c
--- linux-mm-clean/fs/proc/proc_misc.c	2005-09-12 23:02:10.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-mm/fs/proc/proc_misc.c	2005-09-12 22:52:51.000000000 +0200
@@ -567,6 +567,7 @@ read_page_owner(struct file *file, char 
  	char namebuf[128];
  	unsigned long offset = 0, symsize;
 	int i;
+	ssize_t num_written = 0;
 
  	pfn = min_low_pfn + *ppos;
  	page = pfn_to_page(pfn);
@@ -587,23 +588,41 @@ read_page_owner(struct file *file, char 
  	kbuf = kmalloc(count, GFP_KERNEL);
  	if (!kbuf)
  		return -ENOMEM;
+        ret = snprintf(kbuf, count, "Page allocated via order %d,
mask 0x%x\n",                        page->order, page->gfp_mask);
+        if (ret >= count) {
+                ret = -ENOMEM;
+                goto out;
+        }
+
+        num_written = ret;
 
-	ret = snprintf(kbuf, 1024, "Page allocated via order %d, mask 0x%x\n",
-			page->order, page->gfp_mask);
 
 	for (i = 0; i < 8; i++) {
 		if (!page->trace[i])
 			break;
  		symname = kallsyms_lookup(page->trace[i], &symsize, &offset,
&modname, namebuf);
-		ret += snprintf(kbuf + ret, count - ret, "[0x%lx] %s+%lu\n",
+                ret = snprintf(kbuf + num_written, count -
num_written, "[0x%lx] %s+%lu\n",
  			page->trace[i], namebuf, offset);
+                if (ret >= count - num_written) {
+                        ret = -ENOMEM;
+                        goto out;
+                }
+                num_written += ret;
+
 	}
+        ret = snprintf(kbuf + num_written, count - num_written, "\n");
+        if (ret >= count - num_written) {
+                ret = -ENOMEM;
+                goto out;
+        }
 
-	ret += snprintf(kbuf + ret, count -ret, "\n");
+        num_written += ret;
+        ret = num_written;
 
  	if (copy_to_user(buf, kbuf, ret))
  		ret = -EFAULT;
 
+out:
  	kfree(kbuf);
  	return ret;
 }

  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-09-12 21:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 56+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-09-12  9:43 2.6.13-mm3 Andrew Morton
2005-09-12 11:47 ` 2.6.13-mm3 Michal Piotrowski
2005-09-12 11:48 ` 2.6.13-mm3 [OOPS] vfs, page_owner, full reproductively, badness in vsnprintf Michal Piotrowski
2005-09-12 17:54   ` Alexander Nyberg
2005-09-12 18:48     ` Ingo Oeser
2005-09-12 21:13     ` Michal Piotrowski [this message]
2005-09-12 22:44       ` Andrew Morton
2005-09-12 22:56         ` Michal Piotrowski
2005-09-12 23:16           ` Andrew Morton
2005-09-12 13:15 ` 2.6.13-mm3 Reuben Farrelly
2005-09-12 14:17 ` 2.6.13-mm3 BUG in ntfs or slab Jiri Slaby
2005-09-12 14:21   ` Jiri Slaby
2005-09-12 14:45   ` Anton Altaparmakov
2005-09-12 14:17 ` 2.6.13-mm3 Andrew Walrond
2005-09-12 14:26   ` 2.6.13-mm3 Nick Piggin
2005-09-12 14:54 ` 2.6.13-mm3 Sonny Rao
2005-09-12 19:56   ` 2.6.13-mm3 Andrew Morton
2005-09-12 20:09     ` 2.6.13-mm3 Sonny Rao
2005-09-12 20:55       ` 2.6.13-mm3 Andrew Morton
2005-09-12 21:03       ` 2.6.13-mm3 Danny ter Haar
2005-09-12 22:06         ` 2.6.13-mm3 Sonny Rao
2005-09-12 22:47           ` 2.6.13-mm3 Martin J. Bligh
2005-09-13  5:19             ` 2.6.13-mm3 Danny ter Haar
2005-09-13  6:35               ` 2.6.13-mm3 Sonny Rao
2005-09-13  5:14           ` 2.6.13-mm3 Danny ter Haar
2005-09-13  7:02             ` 2.6.13-mm3 Sonny Rao
2005-09-13 14:31               ` 2.6.13-mm3 Martin J. Bligh
2005-09-13 18:32     ` 2.6.13-mm3 Sonny Rao
2005-09-13 18:46       ` 2.6.13-mm3 Sonny Rao
2005-09-12 15:19 ` 2.6.13-mm3 Paolo Ciarrocchi
2005-09-12 20:13   ` 2.6.13-mm3 Nish Aravamudan
2005-09-12 21:04     ` 2.6.13-mm3 Paolo Ciarrocchi
2005-09-12 21:07       ` 2.6.13-mm3 Nish Aravamudan
2005-09-12 22:50       ` 2.6.13-mm3 Martin J. Bligh
2005-09-12 19:40 ` 2.6.13-mm3 Sonny Rao
     [not found]   ` <200509122106.j8CL6WPk006092@wscnet.wsc.cz>
2005-09-12 21:49     ` 2.6.13-mm3 Sonny Rao
2005-09-12 22:10       ` 2.6.13-mm3 Sonny Rao
2005-09-13  0:51         ` 2.6.13-mm3 Jiri Slaby
2005-09-13  5:58           ` 2.6.13-mm3 Sonny Rao
     [not found] ` <20050912222437.GA13124@sergelap.austin.ibm.com>
2005-09-12 23:10   ` ibmvscsi badness (Re: 2.6.13-mm3) Andrew Morton
2005-09-13  1:38     ` Anton Blanchard
2005-09-13  8:56       ` serue
2005-09-13 15:09         ` [Patch] ibmvscsi compatibility fix Dave C Boutcher
2005-09-13 15:18           ` James Bottomley
2005-09-13 18:10             ` Serge E. Hallyn
2005-09-13 19:16           ` Serge E. Hallyn
2005-09-13  4:04     ` ibmvscsi badness (Re: 2.6.13-mm3) Anton Blanchard
2005-09-13  5:10     ` Dave C Boutcher
2005-09-18  0:38       ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-09-13  0:02 ` drivers/usb/class/bluetty.c does NOT build Lion Vollnhals
2005-09-13  0:10   ` Andrew Morton
2005-09-13  0:34   ` [PATCH] usb: bluetty fix old tty buffer using Jiri Slaby
2005-09-15 18:58 ` 2.6.13-mm3 (general protection fault) Dominik Karall
2005-09-15 19:34   ` Andrew Morton
2005-09-15 19:36     ` Andrew Morton
2006-01-14 17:39 ` 2.6.13-mm3 Matthias Urlichs

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