Re: [PATCH] Fix faulty logic in the case of recursive printk

[Steven Rostedt]

On Tue, 26 Aug 2014 11:19:41 +0200
Petr Mládek <pmladek@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Sun 24-08-14 12:01:36, Patrick Palka wrote:
> > We shouldn't set text_len in the code path that detects printk recursion
> > because text_len corresponds to the length of the string inside textbuf.
> > A few lines down from the line
> > 
> >     text_len = strlen(recursion_msg);
> > 
> > is the line
> > 
> >     text_len += vscnprintf(text + text_len, ...);
> > 
> > So if printk detects recursion, it sets text_len to 29 and logs an
> > error.  Then the message supplied by the caller of printk is stored
> > inside textbuf but offset by 29 bytes.  This means that the output of
> > the recursive call to printk will contain 29 bytes of garbage in front
> > of it.
> > 
> > This defect is caused by commit 458df9fd ("printk: remove separate
> > printk_sched buffers and use printk buf instead") which turned
> > 
> >     text_len = vscnprintf(text + text_len, ...);
> > 
> > into
> > 
> >     text_len += vscnprintf(text + text_len, ...);
> > 
> > To fix this, this patch avoids setting text_len when logging the printk
> > recursion error.  This patch also performs a couple of local
> > micro-optimizations (use unlikely() and ARRAY_SIZE()).
> 
> Great catch! And I agree with Jack about that strlen.

Although I will say that ARRAY_SIZE() is used elsewhere in the kernel
like this.

But as this isn't a critical section, either is fine.

Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>


-- Steve

>  
> > Signed-off-by: Patrick Palka <patrick@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >  kernel/printk/printk.c | 6 +++---
> >  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/kernel/printk/printk.c b/kernel/printk/printk.c
> > index e04c455..c101ec2 100644
> > --- a/kernel/printk/printk.c
> > +++ b/kernel/printk/printk.c
> > @@ -1665,15 +1665,15 @@ asmlinkage int vprintk_emit(int facility, int level,
> >  	raw_spin_lock(&logbuf_lock);
> >  	logbuf_cpu = this_cpu;
> >  
> > -	if (recursion_bug) {
> > +	if (unlikely(recursion_bug)) {
> >  		static const char recursion_msg[] =
> >  			"BUG: recent printk recursion!";
> >  
> >  		recursion_bug = 0;
> > -		text_len = strlen(recursion_msg);
> >  		/* emit KERN_CRIT message */
> >  		printed_len += log_store(0, 2, LOG_PREFIX|LOG_NEWLINE, 0,
> > -					 NULL, 0, recursion_msg, text_len);
> > +					 NULL, 0, recursion_msg,
> > +					 ARRAY_SIZE(recursion_msg) - 1);
> >  	}
> >  
> >  	/*
> > -- 
> > 2.1.0
> > 

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