[PATCH] staging: greybus: camera: fix potential overflow in debugfs buffers

From: contectforbusiness

Date: Wed Sep 09 2026 - 15:02:39 EST


The debugfs buffers in gb_camera (data[PAGE_SIZE], length) are written
with sprintf without any bounds checking. The four places in
gb_camera_debugfs_capabilities, gb_camera_debugfs_configure_streams and
gb_camera_debugfs_flush do:

buffer->length += sprintf(buffer->data + buffer->length, ...);
buffer->length = sprintf(buffer->data, ...);

If the formatted data ever grows (e.g., more streams, larger hex dump)
or if length is already close to PAGE_SIZE, this will overrun the
PAGE_SIZE buffer and corrupt memory. The driver is debugfs-only so
the impact is limited, but it is still a real bug and the pattern is
repeated in multiple places.

Fix it by using scnprintf with the remaining size:

scnprintf(buffer->data + buffer->length, PAGE_SIZE - buffer->length, ...)
scnprintf(buffer->data, PAGE_SIZE, ...)

This is the standard way to write to a fixed-size buffer in the
kernel. It guarantees we never write past PAGE_SIZE and will truncate
instead of overrunning, which is safe for debugfs output. The return
value still accumulates in length, which matches the existing use with
simple_read_from_buffer (it will just show truncated output rather
than corrupting).

I checked that this exact conversion has not been proposed before:
the recent greybus conversions to sysfs_emit (light.c, gbphy.c) and
fbtft/vme_tsi148 scnprintf patches do not touch camera.c at all,
and a search of lore for "gb_camera_debugfs" shows no prior patch
for these four sprintf sites.

No functional change for normal sizes, just makes the code safe if
the buffer ever fills up.

Signed-off-by: Vaibhav Agarwal <contectforbusiness@xxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/staging/greybus/camera.c | 10 ++++++----
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/greybus/camera.c b/drivers/staging/greybus/camera.c
index 62b55bb28..efc83ceff 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/greybus/camera.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/greybus/camera.c
@@ -890,7 +890,8 @@ static ssize_t gb_camera_debugfs_capabilities(struct gb_camera *gcam,
for (i = 0; i < size; i += 16) {
unsigned int nbytes = min_t(unsigned int, size - i, 16);

- buffer->length += sprintf(buffer->data + buffer->length,
+ buffer->length += scnprintf(buffer->data + buffer->length,
+ PAGE_SIZE - buffer->length,
"%*ph\n", nbytes, caps + i);
}

@@ -973,12 +974,13 @@ static ssize_t gb_camera_debugfs_configure_streams(struct gb_camera *gcam,
if (ret < 0)
goto done;

- buffer->length = sprintf(buffer->data, "%u;%u;", nstreams, flags);
+ buffer->length = scnprintf(buffer->data, PAGE_SIZE, "%u;%u;", nstreams, flags);

for (i = 0; i < nstreams; ++i) {
struct gb_camera_stream_config *stream = &streams[i];

- buffer->length += sprintf(buffer->data + buffer->length,
+ buffer->length += scnprintf(buffer->data + buffer->length,
+ PAGE_SIZE - buffer->length,
"%u;%u;%u;%u;%u;%u;%u;",
stream->width, stream->height,
stream->format, stream->vc,
@@ -1046,7 +1048,7 @@ static ssize_t gb_camera_debugfs_flush(struct gb_camera *gcam,
if (ret < 0)
return ret;

- buffer->length = sprintf(buffer->data, "%u", req_id);
+ buffer->length = scnprintf(buffer->data, PAGE_SIZE, "%u", req_id);

return len;
}