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From: Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@chromium.org>
To: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@chromium.org>,
	coverity-bot <keescook@chromium.org>,
	John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	"Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@embeddedor.com>,
	linux-next@vger.kernel.org, linux-hardening@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Coverity: console_prepend_dropped(): Memory - corruptions
Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2023 12:07:50 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Y8YRBo7ZmtzWT4J1@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Y8V8tqMJeB7t+rcJ@alley>

On (23/01/16 17:35), Petr Mladek wrote:
> 
> I am going to send a patch.

Sure, sounds good.

> The code might be safe with the current size of the buffer and
> the string. But it is true that the following is wrong:
> 
> 	len = snprintf(scratchbuf, scratchbuf_sz,
> 		       "** %lu printk messages dropped **\n", dropped);

Wouldn't

	if (WARN_ON_ONCE(len + PRINTK_PREFIX_MAX >= outbuf_sz))
		return;

prevent us from doing something harmful?

  reply	other threads:[~2023-01-17  3:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-01-13 23:46 Coverity: console_prepend_dropped(): Memory - corruptions coverity-bot
2023-01-14 10:14 ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2023-01-16 16:35   ` Petr Mladek
2023-01-17  3:07     ` Sergey Senozhatsky [this message]
2023-01-17  7:10       ` John Ogness
2023-01-17  7:51         ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2023-01-17 11:20           ` Petr Mladek
2023-01-18  0:35             ` Sergey Senozhatsky

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