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From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
To: Qian Cai <cai@gmx.us>
Cc: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>,
	"Tobin C. Harding" <me@tobin.cc>,
	Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be>,
	Rasmus Villemoes <rasmus.villemoes@prevas.dk>
Subject: Re: WARNING: CPU: 26 PID: 64391 at lib/vsprintf.c:2193 set_precision+0x84/0x90
Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2018 14:23:17 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20181113142317.379dbaf7@vmware.local.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1542135498.12945.20.camel@gmx.us>

On Tue, 13 Nov 2018 13:58:18 -0500
Qian Cai <cai@gmx.us> wrote:

> > Care to print the len and name parameters before this line?  
> len = 60612; name =

How big are pages on arm64? Because we shouldn't get to this path if
the string is bigger than PAGE_SIZE. But I know that on PPC64,
PAGE_SIZE can be 64K, and 60612 is less than that. Thus, if we get
there, the test is against signed int:16 (16 bit signed integer) that
can go up to most 32768. If the string size is bigger than that, you
would get this error.

I would just say to ignore it. The only thing that can happen if
someone does this is to trigger the warning. Unless if it is considered
a form of DOS, where userspace just bombards the console by triggering
this waring. But I don't see a problem with the actual design. There's
no reason we should be processing string variables bigger than 32768 in
vsprintf.

-- Steve


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> [  833.044728] ------------[ cut here ]------------
> [  833.137184] precision 60612 too large
> > 

  reply	other threads:[~2018-11-13 19:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-11-13 16:55 Qian Cai
2018-11-13 17:20 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2018-11-13 17:32   ` Andy Shevchenko
2018-11-13 17:29 ` Andy Shevchenko
2018-11-13 18:58   ` Qian Cai
2018-11-13 19:23     ` Steven Rostedt [this message]
2018-11-13 23:05       ` Petr Mladek
2018-11-14  9:38         ` Andy Shevchenko
2018-11-14 19:29           ` Petr Mladek
2018-11-14 20:35       ` Qian Cai

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