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* [RESEND][PATCH] sparc: use %s for unaligned panic
@ 2014-06-30 20:37 Kees Cook
  2014-07-14 14:06 ` Sam Ravnborg
  2014-07-22  4:38 ` David Miller
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Kees Cook @ 2014-06-30 20:37 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-kernel; +Cc: David S. Miller, Sam Ravnborg, sparclinux

Since unaligned_panic() takes a literal string, make sure it can never
accidentally be used as a format string.

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
---
 arch/sparc/kernel/unaligned_32.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/sparc/kernel/unaligned_32.c b/arch/sparc/kernel/unaligned_32.c
index c5c61b3c6b56..32b61d1b6379 100644
--- a/arch/sparc/kernel/unaligned_32.c
+++ b/arch/sparc/kernel/unaligned_32.c
@@ -166,7 +166,7 @@ unsigned long safe_compute_effective_address(struct pt_regs *regs,
 /* This is just to make gcc think panic does return... */
 static void unaligned_panic(char *str)
 {
-	panic(str);
+	panic("%s", str);
 }
 
 /* una_asm.S */
-- 
1.7.9.5


-- 
Kees Cook
Chrome OS Security

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* Re: [RESEND][PATCH] sparc: use %s for unaligned panic
  2014-06-30 20:37 [RESEND][PATCH] sparc: use %s for unaligned panic Kees Cook
@ 2014-07-14 14:06 ` Sam Ravnborg
  2014-07-22  4:38 ` David Miller
  1 sibling, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Sam Ravnborg @ 2014-07-14 14:06 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Kees Cook; +Cc: linux-kernel, David S. Miller, sparclinux

On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 01:37:59PM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> Since unaligned_panic() takes a literal string, make sure it can never
> accidentally be used as a format string.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
> ---
>  arch/sparc/kernel/unaligned_32.c |    2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/sparc/kernel/unaligned_32.c b/arch/sparc/kernel/unaligned_32.c
> index c5c61b3c6b56..32b61d1b6379 100644
> --- a/arch/sparc/kernel/unaligned_32.c
> +++ b/arch/sparc/kernel/unaligned_32.c
> @@ -166,7 +166,7 @@ unsigned long safe_compute_effective_address(struct pt_regs *regs,
>  /* This is just to make gcc think panic does return... */
>  static void unaligned_panic(char *str)
>  {
> -	panic(str);
> +	panic("%s", str);
>  }
>  
>  /* una_asm.S */

The feedback last time was that this patch is silly.
panic() has only two callsites within the same file.

	Sam

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* Re: [RESEND][PATCH] sparc: use %s for unaligned panic
  2014-06-30 20:37 [RESEND][PATCH] sparc: use %s for unaligned panic Kees Cook
  2014-07-14 14:06 ` Sam Ravnborg
@ 2014-07-22  4:38 ` David Miller
  1 sibling, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: David Miller @ 2014-07-22  4:38 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: keescook; +Cc: linux-kernel, sam, sparclinux

From: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2014 13:37:59 -0700

> Since unaligned_panic() takes a literal string, make sure it can never
> accidentally be used as a format string.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>

Unnecessary, but harmless, so applied to sparc-next, thanks.

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