From: Markus Boehme <markus.boehme@mailbox.org>
To: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>, Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>,
Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>,
Markus Boehme <markus.boehme@mailbox.org>,
Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>,
Andrew Lunn <andrew+netdev@lunn.ch>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 6.12] netconsole: avoid OOB reads, msg is not nul-terminated
Date: Mon, 3 Aug 2026 20:41:29 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260803184129.24594-2-markus.boehme@mailbox.org> (raw)
From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
[ Upstream commit 82aec772fca2223bc5774bd9af486fd95766e578 ]
msg passed to netconsole from the console subsystem is not guaranteed
to be nul-terminated. Before recent
commit 7eab73b18630 ("netconsole: convert to NBCON console infrastructure")
the message would be placed in printk_shared_pbufs, a static global
buffer, so KASAN had harder time catching OOB accesses. Now we see:
printk: console [netcon_ext0] enabled
BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in string+0x1f7/0x240
Read of size 1 at addr ffff88813b6d4c00 by task pr/netcon_ext0/594
CPU: 65 UID: 0 PID: 594 Comm: pr/netcon_ext0 Not tainted 6.19.0-11754-g4246fd6547c9
Call Trace:
kasan_report+0xe4/0x120
string+0x1f7/0x240
vsnprintf+0x655/0xba0
scnprintf+0xba/0x120
netconsole_write+0x3fe/0xa10
nbcon_emit_next_record+0x46e/0x860
nbcon_kthread_func+0x623/0x750
Allocated by task 1:
nbcon_alloc+0x1ea/0x450
register_console+0x26b/0xe10
init_netconsole+0xbb0/0xda0
The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff88813b6d4000
which belongs to the cache kmalloc-4k of size 4096
The buggy address is located 0 bytes to the right of
allocated 3072-byte region [ffff88813b6d4000, ffff88813b6d4c00)
Fixes: c62c0a17f9b7 ("netconsole: Append kernel version to message")
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260219195021.2099699-1-kuba@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
[ mb: adjusted context; in 6.12 the affected code lives in
send_ext_msg_udp() and writes to a static buffer instead of nt->buf ]
Signed-off-by: Markus Boehme <markus.boehme@mailbox.org>
---
drivers/net/netconsole.c | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/netconsole.c b/drivers/net/netconsole.c
index 60375bb814a1..3b76ec3cd49b 100644
--- a/drivers/net/netconsole.c
+++ b/drivers/net/netconsole.c
@@ -1103,7 +1103,8 @@ static void send_ext_msg_udp(struct netconsole_target *nt, const char *msg,
if (msg_len + release_len + userdata_len <= MAX_PRINT_CHUNK) {
/* No fragmentation needed */
if (nt->release) {
- scnprintf(buf, MAX_PRINT_CHUNK, "%s,%s", release, msg);
+ scnprintf(buf, MAX_PRINT_CHUNK, "%s,%.*s", release,
+ msg_len, msg);
msg_len += release_len;
} else {
memcpy(buf, msg, msg_len);
--
2.55.0
next reply other threads:[~2026-08-03 18:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-08-03 18:41 Markus Boehme [this message]
2026-08-04 1:05 ` [PATCH 6.12] netconsole: avoid OOB reads, msg is not nul-terminated Sasha Levin
2026-08-04 8:04 ` Breno Leitao
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