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From: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
To: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>, Kay Sievers <kay@vrfy.org>
Subject: [PATCH v2] drivers/base: Fix length checks in create_syslog_header()/dev_vprintk_emit()
Date: Sun, 08 Jun 2014 23:51:43 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1402267903.23860.45.camel@deadeye.wl.decadent.org.uk> (raw)

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snprintf() returns the number of bytes that could have been written
(excluding the null), not the actual number of bytes written.  Given a
long enough subsystem or device name, these functions will advance
beyond the end of the on-stack buffer in dev_vprintk_exit(), resulting
in an information leak or stack corruption.  I don't know whether such
a long name is currently possible.

In case snprintf() returns a value >= the buffer size, do not add
structured logging information.  Also WARN if this happens, so we can
fix the driver or increase the buffer size.

Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
---
v2: use dev_WARN() not dev_WARN_ON()

 drivers/base/core.c | 9 +++++++++
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/base/core.c b/drivers/base/core.c
index 20da3ad..062b7bf 100644
--- a/drivers/base/core.c
+++ b/drivers/base/core.c
@@ -2007,6 +2007,8 @@ create_syslog_header(const struct device *dev, char *hdr, size_t hdrlen)
 		return 0;
 
 	pos += snprintf(hdr + pos, hdrlen - pos, "SUBSYSTEM=%s", subsys);
+	if (pos >= hdrlen)
+		goto overflow;
 
 	/*
 	 * Add device identifier DEVICE=:
@@ -2038,7 +2040,14 @@ create_syslog_header(const struct device *dev, char *hdr, size_t hdrlen)
 				"DEVICE=+%s:%s", subsys, dev_name(dev));
 	}
 
+	if (pos >= hdrlen)
+		goto overflow;
+
 	return pos;
+
+overflow:
+	dev_WARN(dev, 1, "device/subsystem name too long");
+	return 0;
 }
 
 int dev_vprintk_emit(int level, const struct device *dev,

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Never attribute to conspiracy what can adequately be explained by stupidity.

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             reply	other threads:[~2014-06-08 22:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-06-08 22:51 Ben Hutchings [this message]
2014-06-09  2:16 ` Joe Perches
2014-07-09 23:57 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2014-07-11 17:20   ` Ben Hutchings
2014-07-11 18:12     ` Greg Kroah-Hartman

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