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Violators will be prosecuted; (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256/256) Fri, 10 May 2019 17:33:02 +0100 Received: from d06av24.portsmouth.uk.ibm.com (mk.ibm.com [9.149.105.60]) by b06cxnps4075.portsmouth.uk.ibm.com (8.14.9/8.14.9/NCO v10.0) with ESMTP id x4AGX1jq47186160 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=OK); Fri, 10 May 2019 16:33:01 GMT Received: from d06av24.portsmouth.uk.ibm.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by IMSVA (Postfix) with ESMTP id 00ED642052; Fri, 10 May 2019 16:33:01 +0000 (GMT) Received: from d06av24.portsmouth.uk.ibm.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by IMSVA (Postfix) with ESMTP id 63DF54203F; Fri, 10 May 2019 16:33:00 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mschwideX1 (unknown [9.145.32.174]) by d06av24.portsmouth.uk.ibm.com (Postfix) with ESMTP; Fri, 10 May 2019 16:33:00 +0000 (GMT) Date: Fri, 10 May 2019 18:32:58 +0200 From: Martin Schwidefsky To: Steven Rostedt Subject: Re: [PATCH] vsprintf: Do not break early boot with probing addresses In-Reply-To: <20190510122401.21a598f6@gandalf.local.home> References: <20190510081635.GA4533@jagdpanzerIV> <20190510084213.22149-1-pmladek@suse.com> <20190510122401.21a598f6@gandalf.local.home> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.13.2 (GTK+ 2.24.30; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-TM-AS-GCONF: 00 x-cbid: 19051016-0016-0000-0000-0000027A67E3 X-IBM-AV-DETECTION: SAVI=unused REMOTE=unused XFE=unused x-cbparentid: 19051016-0017-0000-0000-000032D72460 Message-Id: <20190510183258.1f6c4153@mschwideX1> X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=fsecure engine=2.50.10434:, , definitions=2019-05-09_02:, , signatures=0 X-Proofpoint-Spam-Details: rule=outbound_notspam policy=outbound score=0 priorityscore=1501 malwarescore=0 suspectscore=0 phishscore=0 bulkscore=0 spamscore=0 clxscore=1015 lowpriorityscore=0 mlxscore=0 impostorscore=0 mlxlogscore=873 adultscore=0 classifier=spam adjust=0 reason=mlx scancount=1 engine=8.0.1-1810050000 definitions=main-1905100111 X-BeenThere: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Cc: Petr Mladek , linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, Sergey Senozhatsky , Heiko Carstens , linux-s390@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, Rasmus Villemoes , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Michal Hocko , Sergey Senozhatsky , Stephen Rothwell , Andy Shevchenko , Linus Torvalds , "Tobin C . Harding" Errors-To: linuxppc-dev-bounces+linuxppc-dev=archiver.kernel.org@lists.ozlabs.org Sender: "Linuxppc-dev" On Fri, 10 May 2019 12:24:01 -0400 Steven Rostedt wrote: > On Fri, 10 May 2019 10:42:13 +0200 > Petr Mladek 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)"; > > > > > < PAGE_SIZE ? > > do you mean: < TASK_SIZE ? The check with < TASK_SIZE would break on s390. The 'ptr' is in the kernel address space, *not* in the user address space. Remember s390 has two separate address spaces for kernel/user the check < TASK_SIZE only makes sense with a __user pointer. -- blue skies, Martin. "Reality continues to ruin my life." - Calvin.