From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from s3.sipsolutions.net ([2a01:4f8:191:4433::2] helo=sipsolutions.net) by desiato.infradead.org with esmtps (Exim 4.94 #2 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1lHTqx-005UJH-3y for linux-um@lists.infradead.org; Wed, 03 Mar 2021 15:56:05 +0000 From: Benjamin Berg Subject: [PATCH 06/27] um: Don't use vfprintf() for os_info() Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2021 16:55:02 +0100 Message-Id: <20210303155523.124277-7-benjamin@sipsolutions.net> In-Reply-To: <20210303155523.124277-1-benjamin@sipsolutions.net> References: <20210303155523.124277-1-benjamin@sipsolutions.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: "linux-um" Errors-To: linux-um-bounces+geert=linux-m68k.org@lists.infradead.org To: linux-um@lists.infradead.org Cc: Benjamin Berg The threads allocated inside the kernel have only a single page of stack. Unfortunately, the vfprintf function in standard glibc may use too much stack-space, overflowing it. To make os_info safe to be used by helper threads, use the kernel vscnprintf function into a smallish buffer and write out the information to stderr. Signed-off-by: Benjamin Berg --- arch/um/os-Linux/util.c | 19 +++++++++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/um/os-Linux/util.c b/arch/um/os-Linux/util.c index 07327425d06e..56d9589e1cd1 100644 --- a/arch/um/os-Linux/util.c +++ b/arch/um/os-Linux/util.c @@ -166,23 +166,38 @@ __uml_setup("quiet", quiet_cmd_param, "quiet\n" " Turns off information messages during boot.\n\n"); +/* + * The os_info/os_warn functions will be called by helper threads. These + * have a very limited stack size and using the libc formatting functions + * may overflow the stack. + * So pull in the kernel vscnprintf and use that instead with a fixed + * on-stack buffer. + */ +int vscnprintf(char *buf, size_t size, const char *fmt, va_list args); + void os_info(const char *fmt, ...) { + char buf[256]; va_list list; + int len; if (quiet_info) return; va_start(list, fmt); - vfprintf(stderr, fmt, list); + len = vscnprintf(buf, sizeof(buf), fmt, list); + fwrite(buf, len, 1, stderr); va_end(list); } void os_warn(const char *fmt, ...) { + char buf[256]; va_list list; + int len; va_start(list, fmt); - vfprintf(stderr, fmt, list); + len = vscnprintf(buf, sizeof(buf), fmt, list); + fwrite(buf, len, 1, stderr); va_end(list); } -- 2.29.2 _______________________________________________ linux-um mailing list linux-um@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-um