[PATCH next v2 0/2] printk: fix reading beyond buffer

[John Ogness]

Hello,

Marek Szyprowski reported [0] a problem with a particular printk
usage. This particular usage performs thousands of LOG_CONT calls.
The printk.c implementation was only limiting the growing record by
the maximum size available in the ringbuffer, thus creating a record
that was several kilobytes in size. This in and of itself is not
a problem.

However, the various readers used buffers that were about 1KB in
size. The ringbuffer would only fill the reader's 1KB buffer, but the
meta data stated that the message was actually much larger. The
reader code was not checking this and assumed its buffer contained
the full message.

I have solved this problem by adding the necessary check to the
functions where the situation can occur and also adding an argument
when extending records so that a maximum size is specified. This
will prevent the records from growing beyond the size that we know
our readers are using.

I did not add the check where it is certain that the reader's
buffer is large enough to contain the largest possible message.

The 2nd patch in this series reduces the size of the initial setup
buffer. I noticed it was too big while verifying all the sizes for
this series.

John Ogness

[0] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/f1651593-3579-5820-6863-5f4973d2bfdc@xxxxxxxxxxx

John Ogness (2):
  printk: avoid and/or handle record truncation
  printk: reduce setup_text_buf size to LOG_LINE_MAX

 kernel/printk/printk.c            | 11 +++++++++--
 kernel/printk/printk_ringbuffer.c | 12 ++++++++++--
 kernel/printk/printk_ringbuffer.h |  2 +-
 3 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

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