Re: [PATCH] printk: fix buffer overflow potential for print_text()

[Sven Schnelle]

Sven Schnelle <svens@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> John Ogness <john.ogness@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
>> On 2021-01-22, Sven Schnelle <svens@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I was able to reproduce it in a virtual machine where i have a few more
> ways to debug. What i got was:
>
> 01:  -> 00000000001B8814"  MVI     92001000 >> 000000000163F1CD     CC 2
>
> That's a watchpoint telling me that the code at 0x1b8814 wants to store
> one byte to 0x163f1cd, which is the second byte of console_drivers.
>
> gdb tells me about 0x1b8814:
>
> (gdb) list *(0x1b8814)
> 0x1b8814 is in record_print_text (/home/svens/ibmgit/linux/kernel/printk/printk.c:1402).
> 1397		 * If a buffer was provided, it will be terminated. Space for the
> 1398		 * string terminator is guaranteed to be available. The terminator is
> 1399		 * not counted in the return value.
> 1400		 */
> 1401		if (buf_size > 0)
> 1402			text[len] = 0;

I don't think i have really understood how all the printk magic works,
but using r->text_buf[len] seems to be the correct place to put the zero byte
in that case?

> 1403	
> 1404		return len;
> 1405	}
> 1406
>