From: David Laight <David.Laight@ACULAB.COM>
To: 'christophe leroy' <christophe.leroy@c-s.fr>,
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>,
Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>,
"Tobin C . Harding" <me@tobin.cc>, Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>,
Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>,
Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>,
"linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org" <linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org>,
Russell Currey <ruscur@russell.cc>,
Stephen Rothwell <sfr@ozlabs.org>,
Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>,
"linux-arch@vger.kernel.org" <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>,
"linux-s390@vger.kernel.org" <linux-s390@vger.kernel.org>,
Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Subject: RE: [PATCH] vsprintf: Do not break early boot with probing addresses
Date: Mon, 13 May 2019 08:52:41 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <096d6c9c17b3484484d9d9d3f3aa3a7c@AcuMS.aculab.com> (raw)
Message-ID: <20190513085241.CwbAqRfT4AD-BNv6ycJNL377JFUjP7hKf_PblscZCMA@z> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <daf4dfd1-7f4f-8b92-6866-437c3a2be28b@c-s.fr>
From: christophe leroy
> Sent: 10 May 2019 18:35
> Le 10/05/2019 à 18:24, Steven Rostedt a écrit :
> > On Fri, 10 May 2019 10:42:13 +0200
> > Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com> wrote:
> >
> >> static const char *check_pointer_msg(const void *ptr)
> >> {
> >> - char byte;
> >> -
> >> if (!ptr)
> >> return "(null)";
> >>
> >> - if (probe_kernel_address(ptr, byte))
> >> + if ((unsigned long)ptr < PAGE_SIZE || IS_ERR_VALUE(ptr))
> >> return "(efault)";
"efault" looks a bit like a spellling mistake for "default".
> > < PAGE_SIZE ?
> >
> > do you mean: < TASK_SIZE ?
>
> I guess not.
>
> Usually, < PAGE_SIZE means NULL pointer dereference (via the member of a
> struct)
Maybe the caller should pass in a short buffer so that you can return
"(err-%d)" or "(null+%#x)" ?
David
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2019-05-09 12:19 ` [PATCH] vsprintf: Do not break early boot with probing addresses Petr Mladek
[not found] ` <20190509130512.eOpTHWX1Vw219J1juYw-SpeQRpBzQZT5CGSN2gh29i4@z>
2019-05-09 13:05 ` Andy Shevchenko
[not found] ` <20190509131357.ae3kG3RqVx9kjP66InzbRDur4-P1bAbE2QdMj6Mn17c@z>
2019-05-09 13:13 ` Steven Rostedt
[not found] ` <20190509140609.pGTLvlSQI_xy_YFvhBzkQV7ZWu_ABMDICwAH3s7J8IA@z>
2019-05-09 14:06 ` Petr Mladek
[not found] ` <20190509133829.35pSRgEMpcLhNbfDUK9sCV-aSZSNvQEOVDu8hmrRnzU@z>
2019-05-09 13:38 ` Michal Suchánek
[not found] ` <20190509134659.kYjGd-skkWNID8rAreeNzTDTLfzq382O0FQCZ5calZI@z>
2019-05-09 13:46 ` David Laight
2019-05-10 10:21 ` Michael Ellerman
[not found] ` <20190510043200.8FxCQhSO0N0LIZ4YtumRMpgw45VDU75TKeSE5eHU2dc@z>
2019-05-10 4:32 ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2019-05-10 4:47 ` Linus Torvalds
[not found] ` <20190510050709.ugUsmdWEg2-_zeuhzXY9dG3VOFvC7DcdjoUsQ1gSOxk@z>
2019-05-10 5:07 ` Sergey Senozhatsky
[not found] ` <20190510064124.q7J_CwuPPeHjW5ZMFj9t16uRiB6ATm6nxxi7Biu_ngY@z>
2019-05-10 6:41 ` Michael Ellerman
[not found] ` <20190510080602.36-virBOPDomDAXDbVYusr-C7NH4SabZGccCMnPdJH4@z>
2019-05-10 8:06 ` Petr Mladek
2019-05-10 8:16 ` Sergey Senozhatsky
[not found] ` <20190510084213.8Fn-MjbMg2bybTStBKHj9OvLB7rut0bqt0KPaIdXS6w@z>
2019-05-10 8:42 ` Petr Mladek
[not found] ` <20190510085121.odNKC0TIP5NjjMowx6VFDfGImLYzeJZz8lrq7Yx7_hk@z>
2019-05-10 8:51 ` Sergey Senozhatsky
[not found] ` <20190510144917.9fXSsk7NOInbDA76CH7cG3WBj0FI-4Dwb2Tk9_C4zpU@z>
2019-05-10 14:49 ` Petr Mladek
[not found] ` <20190510162401.zyjRI2h57ECWKi8XIr7nNNUOwR44kpMVP_pAyDYOETo@z>
2019-05-10 16:24 ` Steven Rostedt
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2019-05-10 16:32 ` Martin Schwidefsky
[not found] ` <20190510164058.TGQUcmQqwQN4_qlomMwU48TPGVQzXQVM4L1sbRoiVqY@z>
2019-05-10 16:40 ` Steven Rostedt
[not found] ` <20190510164548.hSfrXK8q_ZGsqqE57NiR7n0OFDEvIcwdE7j7PZU7lac@z>
2019-05-10 16:45 ` Martin Schwidefsky
[not found] ` <20190513122424.Bzyc5wNhgHc3y9K3Vn-j74_9etFbZZ5gQ1QPdKl6DWc@z>
2019-05-13 12:24 ` Petr Mladek
[not found] ` <20190510164134.MOFEXv4lZ0byKuO5xFyCeqdaA9zePgipycDNWtjfBrg@z>
2019-05-10 16:41 ` Andy Shevchenko
[not found] ` <20190510173529.XATeuZJ4qvPsIGIrHM2kfdN6CdMiyb6gddK2hUaBa-I@z>
2019-05-10 17:35 ` christophe leroy
[not found] ` <20190513085241.CwbAqRfT4AD-BNv6ycJNL377JFUjP7hKf_PblscZCMA@z>
2019-05-13 8:52 ` David Laight [this message]
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2019-05-13 9:13 ` Andy Shevchenko
[not found] ` <20190513124220.pxn2l_kLvtCUhSGnQPpm0fECHh3Y6INT5S5RWf6pfe4@z>
2019-05-13 12:42 ` Petr Mladek
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2019-05-13 14:15 ` Steven Rostedt
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2019-05-14 2:07 ` Sergey Senozhatsky
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2019-05-14 2:25 ` Sergey Senozhatsky
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2019-05-14 8:28 ` David Laight
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2019-05-14 9:02 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
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2019-05-14 18:37 ` Steven Rostedt
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2019-05-14 19:13 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
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2019-05-14 19:35 ` Steven Rostedt
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2019-05-15 7:23 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
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2019-05-15 7:53 ` Petr Mladek
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2019-05-15 6:21 ` Sergey Senozhatsky
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2019-05-15 7:35 ` Petr Mladek
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