[PATCH] printk: fix possible reuse of va_list variable

From: Tetsuo Handa
Date: Fri May 11 2018 - 07:02:40 EST


>From 766cf72b5fdc00d1cf5a8ca2c6b23ebb75e2b4d4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 11 May 2018 19:54:19 +0900
Subject: [PATCH] printk: fix possible reuse of va_list variable

I noticed that there is a possibility that printk_safe_log_store() causes
kernel oops because "args" parameter is passed to vsnprintf() again when
atomic_cmpxchg() detected that we raced. Fix this by using va_copy().

Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Fixes: 42a0bb3f71383b45 ("printk/nmi: generic solution for safe printk in NMI")
Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Petr Mladek <pmladek@xxxxxxxx>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/printk/printk_safe.c | 5 ++++-
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/printk/printk_safe.c b/kernel/printk/printk_safe.c
index 3e3c200..449d67e 100644
--- a/kernel/printk/printk_safe.c
+++ b/kernel/printk/printk_safe.c
@@ -82,6 +82,7 @@ static __printf(2, 0) int printk_safe_log_store(struct printk_safe_seq_buf *s,
{
int add;
size_t len;
+ va_list ap;

again:
len = atomic_read(&s->len);
@@ -100,7 +101,9 @@ static __printf(2, 0) int printk_safe_log_store(struct printk_safe_seq_buf *s,
if (!len)
smp_rmb();

- add = vscnprintf(s->buffer + len, sizeof(s->buffer) - len, fmt, args);
+ va_copy(ap, args);
+ add = vscnprintf(s->buffer + len, sizeof(s->buffer) - len, fmt, ap);
+ va_end(ap);
if (!add)
return 0;

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1.8.3.1