From: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
To: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
sparclinux@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sparc: use %s for unaligned panic
Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2014 09:07:09 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140315080709.GA14405@ravnborg.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140311202446.GA24531@www.outflux.net>
On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 01:24:46PM -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 c0ec89786193..892e399414e0 100644
> --- a/arch/sparc/kernel/unaligned_32.c
> +++ b/arch/sparc/kernel/unaligned_32.c
> @@ -162,7 +162,7 @@ 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 */
Another "fix" would be to align with sparc64 and call die_if_kernel()
Sam
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-03-15 8:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-03-11 20:24 Kees Cook
2014-03-15 8:07 ` Sam Ravnborg [this message]
2014-03-17 19:51 ` David Miller
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