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From: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
	Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>,
	Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>,
	Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@chromium.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: [PATCH v1 1/1] lib/vsprintf: Check pointer before dereferencing in time_and_date()
Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2025 14:21:18 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20251110132118.4113976-1-andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com> (raw)

The pointer may be invalid when gets to the printf(). In particular
the time_and_date() dereferencing it in some cases without checking.

Move the check from rtc_str() to time_and_date() to cover all cases.

Fixes: 7daac5b2fdf8 ("lib/vsprintf: Print time64_t in human readable format")
Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
---
 lib/vsprintf.c | 6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/vsprintf.c b/lib/vsprintf.c
index e49f350ee549..3f99834fd788 100644
--- a/lib/vsprintf.c
+++ b/lib/vsprintf.c
@@ -1928,9 +1928,6 @@ char *rtc_str(char *buf, char *end, const struct rtc_time *tm,
 	bool found = true;
 	int count = 2;
 
-	if (check_pointer(&buf, end, tm, spec))
-		return buf;
-
 	switch (fmt[count]) {
 	case 'd':
 		have_t = false;
@@ -1996,6 +1993,9 @@ static noinline_for_stack
 char *time_and_date(char *buf, char *end, void *ptr, struct printf_spec spec,
 		    const char *fmt)
 {
+	if (check_pointer(&buf, end, ptr, spec))
+		return buf;
+
 	switch (fmt[1]) {
 	case 'R':
 		return rtc_str(buf, end, (const struct rtc_time *)ptr, spec, fmt);
-- 
2.50.1


             reply	other threads:[~2025-11-10 13:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-11-10 13:21 Andy Shevchenko [this message]
2025-11-10 14:44 ` [PATCH v1 1/1] lib/vsprintf: Check pointer before dereferencing in time_and_date() Petr Mladek
2025-11-12 10:59 ` Petr Mladek

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