Re: [GIT PULL] vsprintf: Fix off-by-one bug in bstr_printf() processing dereferenced pointers

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

On Wed, Oct 10, 2018 at 09:18:03AM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> 
> Linus (aka Greg),
> 
> It was reported that trace_printk() was not reporting properly
> values that came after a dereference pointer.
> 
> trace_printk() utilizes vbin_printf() and bstr_printf() to keep the
> overhead of tracing down. vbin_printf() does not do any conversions
> and just stors the string format and the raw arguments into the
> buffer. bstr_printf() is used to read the buffer and does the conversions
> to complete the printf() output.
> 
> This can be troublesome with dereferenced pointers because the reference
> may be different from the time vbin_printf() is called to the time
> bstr_printf() is called. To fix this, a prior commit changed vbin_printf()
> to convert dereferenced pointers into strings and load the converted
> string into the buffer. But the change to bstr_printf() had an off-by-one
> error and didn't account for the nul character at the end of the string
> and this corrupted the rest of the values in the format that came after
> a dereferenced pointer.
> 
> 
> Please pull the latest trace-v4.19-rc5 tree, which can be found at:
> 
> 
>   git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace.git
> trace-v4.19-rc5
> 
> Tag SHA1: b5fc80d980ae316323e88c165084deef39afd168
> Head SHA1: 62165600ae73ebd76e2d9b992b36360408d570d8
> 

Now merged, thanks.

greg k-h