From: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
To: Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@oracle.com>
Cc: kexec@lists.infradead.org, xen-devel@lists.xensource.com,
kumagai-atsushi@mxc.nes.nec.co.jp
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 2/7] elf: Increase buf size in get_pt_note_info()
Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2013 15:04:41 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <51E00CF9.7080604@citrix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1373636895-31682-3-git-send-email-daniel.kiper@oracle.com>
On 12/07/13 14:48, Daniel Kiper wrote:
> get_pt_note_info() always ignores VMCOREINFO_XEN note
> because buf size is too small. It does not have place
> for \0 char which marks EOS. This patch fixes that bug
> and VMCOREINFO_XEN note living in /proc/vmcore file
> could be properly detected now.
>
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@oracle.com>
> ---
> elf_info.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/elf_info.c b/elf_info.c
> index 0c1e36a..70a6dd2 100644
> --- a/elf_info.c
> +++ b/elf_info.c
> @@ -310,7 +310,7 @@ get_pt_note_info(void)
> {
> int n_type, size_name, size_desc;
> off_t offset, offset_desc;
> - char buf[VMCOREINFO_XEN_NOTE_NAME_BYTES];
> + char buf[VMCOREINFO_XEN_NOTE_NAME_BYTES + 1];
> char note[MAX_SIZE_NHDR];
>
> nr_cpus = 0;
Elf Note namesz is defined to include the terminating null character, so
I would argue that VMCOREINFO_XEN_NOTE_NAME_BYTES is off-by-one.
~Andrew
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Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-07-12 13:48 [PATCH 0/7] Xen fixes and minor cleanups Daniel Kiper
2013-07-12 13:48 ` [PATCH 1/7] xen: Improve calculation of beginning of virtual address space Daniel Kiper
2013-07-12 13:48 ` [PATCH 2/7] elf: Increase buf size in get_pt_note_info() Daniel Kiper
2013-07-12 14:04 ` Andrew Cooper [this message]
2013-07-12 19:09 ` [Xen-devel] " Daniel Kiper
2013-07-12 13:48 ` [PATCH 3/7] xen: Take into account new frame table address since Xen 4.3 Daniel Kiper
2013-07-12 13:48 ` [PATCH 4/7] xen: Enforce page size only when xen-syms file is used Daniel Kiper
2013-07-12 13:48 ` [PATCH 5/7] Mute some compiler warnings Daniel Kiper
2013-07-12 14:12 ` [Xen-devel] " Andrew Cooper
2013-07-12 13:48 ` [PATCH 6/7] Use elf_getshdrstrndx() instead of elf_getshstrndx() Daniel Kiper
2013-07-12 13:48 ` [PATCH 7/7] Do not break progress messages Daniel Kiper
2013-07-12 14:01 ` [Xen-devel] [PATCH 0/7] Xen fixes and minor cleanups Andrew Cooper
2013-07-12 14:30 ` Daniel Kiper
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