From: sashiko-bot@kernel.org
To: "Kees Cook" <kees@kernel.org>
Cc: nvdimm@lists.linux.dev, bpf@vger.kernel.org,
linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org,
linux-trace-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 02/11] seq_buf: Do not pop from an overflowed seq_buf
Date: Sat, 03 Oct 2026 04:05:36 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261003040536.986051F000FF@smtp.kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20261003035921.1918874-2-kees@kernel.org>
> When a seq_buf has overflowed, its len is size + 1, so seq_buf_pop()
> decrements len to size and reads buffer[size], one byte past the end of
> the buffer. It also leaves len equal to size, which no longer counts as
> overflowed, so a truncated seq_buf then looks like a complete, full one.
>
> An overflowed seq_buf logically has no last character to pop: the
> length of what was written has been lost, and the last byte of the
> buffer may be the NUL written by vsnprintf() or bytes that were never
> committed. Return -1 for an overflowed seq_buf, as for an empty one,
> and leave it overflowed, as the rest of the seq_buf API does until
> seq_buf_clear() or seq_buf_init().
>
> The current callers do not reach this, e.g. trace_syscalls only calls
> trace_seq_pop() when the trace_seq it pops from has not overflowed, and
> kernel/bpf/diagnostics.c sets the length from strnlen() before popping.
>
> Add tests for the pop corner cases.
>
> Tests passed under qemu on ARCH=x86_64 with GCC 16.2.0 and CONFIG_KASAN=y,
> and on big-endian ARCH=s390 with GCC s390x-linux-gnu 16.1.0.
>
> Fixes: 32e0f607ac6a2 ("tracing: Add trace_seq_pop() and seq_buf_pop()")
> Assisted-by: LLM
> Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
Sashiko has reviewed this patch and found no issues. It looks great!
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-10-03 4:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-10-03 3:59 [PATCH v4 00/11] seq_buf: Add seq_buf_strlen() Kees Cook
2026-10-03 3:59 ` [PATCH v4 01/11] seq_buf: Do not print an empty line from an overflowed seq_buf_do_printk() Kees Cook
2026-10-03 4:07 ` sashiko-bot
2026-10-03 3:59 ` [PATCH v4 02/11] seq_buf: Do not pop from an overflowed seq_buf Kees Cook
2026-10-03 4:05 ` sashiko-bot [this message]
2026-10-03 3:59 ` [PATCH v4 03/11] seq_buf: Copy what fits when seq_buf_puts() and seq_buf_putmem() overflow Kees Cook
2026-10-03 4:07 ` sashiko-bot
2026-10-03 3:59 ` [PATCH v4 04/11] seq_buf: Clear what a writer did not claim when a seq_buf overflows Kees Cook
2026-10-03 4:07 ` sashiko-bot
2026-10-03 3:59 ` [PATCH v4 05/11] seq_buf: Add seq_buf_strlen() Kees Cook
2026-10-03 4:04 ` sashiko-bot
2026-10-03 15:36 ` Andy Shevchenko
2026-10-04 7:26 ` Kees Cook
2026-10-04 8:34 ` Andy Shevchenko
2026-10-05 11:22 ` Kees Cook
2026-10-05 11:34 ` Alejandro Colomar
2026-10-05 15:58 ` Kees Cook
2026-10-05 16:43 ` Alejandro Colomar
2026-10-03 3:59 ` [PATCH v4 06/11] seq_buf: Add seq_buf_terminate() Kees Cook
2026-10-03 4:05 ` sashiko-bot
2026-10-03 3:59 ` [PATCH v4 07/11] bpf: Remove dead newline stripping from format_disasm_line() Kees Cook
2026-10-03 4:05 ` sashiko-bot
2026-10-03 3:59 ` [PATCH v4 08/11] seq_buf: Add seq_buf_init_append() Kees Cook
2026-10-03 4:05 ` sashiko-bot
2026-10-03 3:59 ` [PATCH v4 09/11] powerpc/papr_scm: Return the string length from the sysfs show functions Kees Cook
2026-10-03 4:06 ` sashiko-bot
2026-10-03 3:59 ` [PATCH v4 10/11] nvdimm: ndtest: Return the string length from flags_show() Kees Cook
2026-10-03 4:08 ` sashiko-bot
2026-10-03 3:59 ` [PATCH v4 11/11] docs: core-api: Document the seq_buf API Kees Cook
2026-10-03 4:03 ` sashiko-bot
2026-10-03 6:32 ` [PATCH v4 00/11] seq_buf: Add seq_buf_strlen() Alexei Starovoitov
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