[PATCH] tracing: Add paranoid size check in trace_printk_seq()

From: Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)
Date: Wed Nov 19 2014 - 10:56:41 EST


To be really paranoid about writing out of bound data in
trace_printk_seq(), add another check of len compared to size.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20141119144004.GB2332@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Suggested-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/trace/trace.c | 8 ++++++++
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace.c b/kernel/trace/trace.c
index 9023446b2c2b..26facec4625e 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace.c
@@ -6656,6 +6656,14 @@ trace_printk_seq(struct trace_seq *s)
if (s->seq.len >= TRACE_MAX_PRINT)
s->seq.len = TRACE_MAX_PRINT;

+ /*
+ * More paranoid code. Although the buffer size is set to
+ * PAGE_SIZE, and TRACE_MAX_PRINT is 1000, this is just
+ * an extra layer of protection.
+ */
+ if (WARN_ON_ONCE(s->seq.len >= s->seq.size))
+ s->seq.len = s->seq.size - 1;
+
/* should be zero ended, but we are paranoid. */
s->buffer[s->seq.len] = 0;

--
1.8.1.4

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