RE: [PATCH 1/2] hexagon/traps.c: use KSYM_NAME_LEN in array size

From: David Laight
Date: Tue May 30 2023 - 09:42:24 EST


From: Maninder Singh
> Sent: 29 May 2023 12:14
>
> kallsyms_lookup which in turn calls for kallsyms_lookup_buildid()
> writes on index "KSYM_NAME_LEN - 1".
>
> Thus array size should be KSYM_NAME_LEN.
>
> for hexagon it was defined as "128" directly.
> and commit '61968dbc2d5d' changed define value to 512,
> So both were missed to update with new size.

The only safe way to pass a fixed size string is to embed the char[] in
a structure and pass the structure address.

Pretty much anything else is doomed to be buggy.

Whether is it actually sane to require the caller allocate
such a large buffer (hi rust) is another matter entirely.

David

>
> Fixes: 61968dbc2d5d ("kallsyms: increase maximum kernel symbol length to 512")
>
> Co-developed-by: Onkarnath <onkarnath.1@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Onkarnath <onkarnath.1@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Maninder Singh <maninder1.s@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> arch/hexagon/kernel/traps.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/hexagon/kernel/traps.c b/arch/hexagon/kernel/traps.c
> index 6447763ce5a9..65b30b6ea226 100644
> --- a/arch/hexagon/kernel/traps.c
> +++ b/arch/hexagon/kernel/traps.c
> @@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ static void do_show_stack(struct task_struct *task, unsigned long *fp,
> const char *name = NULL;
> unsigned long *newfp;
> unsigned long low, high;
> - char tmpstr[128];
> + char tmpstr[KSYM_NAME_LEN];
> char *modname;
> int i;
>
> --
> 2.17.1

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