RAMOOPS: Don't overflow over non-allocated regions
authorAhmed S. Darwish <darwish.07@gmail.com>
Sat, 25 Dec 2010 09:57:09 +0000 (11:57 +0200)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Tue, 28 Dec 2010 19:12:32 +0000 (11:12 -0800)
The current code mis-calculates the ramoops header size, leading to an
overflow over the next record at best, or over a non-allocated region at
worst.  Fix that calculation.

Signed-off-by: Ahmed S. Darwish <darwish.07@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Marco Stornelli <marco.stornelli@gmail.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
drivers/char/ramoops.c

index 73dcb0ee41fdaebcbefee2b0ddf705bd5a26b1e9..d3d63be2cd37efc15c5b261ab10492ba8b01caf6 100644 (file)
@@ -29,7 +29,6 @@
 #include <linux/ramoops.h>
 
 #define RAMOOPS_KERNMSG_HDR "===="
-#define RAMOOPS_HEADER_SIZE   (5 + sizeof(struct timeval))
 
 #define RECORD_SIZE 4096
 
@@ -65,8 +64,8 @@ static void ramoops_do_dump(struct kmsg_dumper *dumper,
                        struct ramoops_context, dump);
        unsigned long s1_start, s2_start;
        unsigned long l1_cpy, l2_cpy;
-       int res;
-       char *buf;
+       int res, hdr_size;
+       char *buf, *buf_orig;
        struct timeval timestamp;
 
        /* Only dump oopses if dump_oops is set */
@@ -74,6 +73,8 @@ static void ramoops_do_dump(struct kmsg_dumper *dumper,
                return;
 
        buf = (char *)(cxt->virt_addr + (cxt->count * RECORD_SIZE));
+       buf_orig = buf;
+
        memset(buf, '\0', RECORD_SIZE);
        res = sprintf(buf, "%s", RAMOOPS_KERNMSG_HDR);
        buf += res;
@@ -81,8 +82,9 @@ static void ramoops_do_dump(struct kmsg_dumper *dumper,
        res = sprintf(buf, "%lu.%lu\n", (long)timestamp.tv_sec, (long)timestamp.tv_usec);
        buf += res;
 
-       l2_cpy = min(l2, (unsigned long)(RECORD_SIZE - RAMOOPS_HEADER_SIZE));
-       l1_cpy = min(l1, (unsigned long)(RECORD_SIZE - RAMOOPS_HEADER_SIZE) - l2_cpy);
+       hdr_size = buf - buf_orig;
+       l2_cpy = min(l2, (unsigned long)(RECORD_SIZE - hdr_size));
+       l1_cpy = min(l1, (unsigned long)(RECORD_SIZE - hdr_size) - l2_cpy);
 
        s2_start = l2 - l2_cpy;
        s1_start = l1 - l1_cpy;