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* [PATCH] jent: use safe format string parameters
@ 2015-07-24 22:41 Kees Cook
  2015-07-25 10:14 ` Stephan Mueller
  2015-07-28  7:07 ` Herbert Xu
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Kees Cook @ 2015-07-24 22:41 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-kernel; +Cc: Herbert Xu, David S. Miller, linux-crypto

Since the API for jent_panic() does not include format string parameters,
adjust the call to panic() to use a literal string to avoid any future
callers from leaking format strings into the panic message.

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
---
 crypto/jitterentropy-kcapi.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/crypto/jitterentropy-kcapi.c b/crypto/jitterentropy-kcapi.c
index b32d834144cd..ceea83d13168 100644
--- a/crypto/jitterentropy-kcapi.c
+++ b/crypto/jitterentropy-kcapi.c
@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ int jent_fips_enabled(void)
 
 void jent_panic(char *s)
 {
-	panic(s);
+	panic("%s", s);
 }
 
 void jent_memcpy(void *dest, const void *src, unsigned int n)
-- 
1.9.1


-- 
Kees Cook
Chrome OS Security

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* Re: [PATCH] jent: use safe format string parameters
  2015-07-24 22:41 [PATCH] jent: use safe format string parameters Kees Cook
@ 2015-07-25 10:14 ` Stephan Mueller
  2015-07-28  7:07 ` Herbert Xu
  1 sibling, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Stephan Mueller @ 2015-07-25 10:14 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Kees Cook; +Cc: linux-kernel, Herbert Xu, David S. Miller, linux-crypto

Am Freitag, 24. Juli 2015, 15:41:27 schrieb Kees Cook:

Hi Kees,

>Since the API for jent_panic() does not include format string parameters,
>adjust the call to panic() to use a literal string to avoid any future
>callers from leaking format strings into the panic message.
>
>Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>

Thanks.

Acked-by: Stephan Mueller <smueller@chronox.de>
>---
> crypto/jitterentropy-kcapi.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
>diff --git a/crypto/jitterentropy-kcapi.c b/crypto/jitterentropy-kcapi.c
>index b32d834144cd..ceea83d13168 100644
>--- a/crypto/jitterentropy-kcapi.c
>+++ b/crypto/jitterentropy-kcapi.c
>@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ int jent_fips_enabled(void)
>
> void jent_panic(char *s)
> {
>-	panic(s);
>+	panic("%s", s);
> }
>
> void jent_memcpy(void *dest, const void *src, unsigned int n)


Ciao
Stephan

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* Re: [PATCH] jent: use safe format string parameters
  2015-07-24 22:41 [PATCH] jent: use safe format string parameters Kees Cook
  2015-07-25 10:14 ` Stephan Mueller
@ 2015-07-28  7:07 ` Herbert Xu
  1 sibling, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Herbert Xu @ 2015-07-28  7:07 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Kees Cook; +Cc: linux-kernel, David S. Miller, linux-crypto

On Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 03:41:27PM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> Since the API for jent_panic() does not include format string parameters,
> adjust the call to panic() to use a literal string to avoid any future
> callers from leaking format strings into the panic message.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>

Applied.
-- 
Email: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/
PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt

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