From e3756477aec028427fec767957c0d4b6cfb87208 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jeff Mahoney Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2012 15:07:09 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] printk: Fix calculation of length used to discard records While tracking down a weird buffer overflow issue in a program that looked to be sane, I started double checking the length returned by syslog(SYSLOG_ACTION_READ_ALL, ...) to make sure it wasn't overflowing the buffer. Sure enough, it was. I saw this in strace: 11339 syslog(SYSLOG_ACTION_READ_ALL, "<5>[244017.708129] REISERFS (dev"..., 8192) = 8279 It turns out that the loops that calculate how much space the entries will take when they're copied don't include the newlines and prefixes that will be included in the final output since prev flags is passed as zero. This patch properly accounts for it and fixes the overflow. CC: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jeff Mahoney Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- kernel/printk.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/kernel/printk.c b/kernel/printk.c index 6a76ab9d4476..66a2ea37b576 100644 --- a/kernel/printk.c +++ b/kernel/printk.c @@ -1034,6 +1034,7 @@ static int syslog_print_all(char __user *buf, int size, bool clear) struct log *msg = log_from_idx(idx); len += msg_print_text(msg, prev, true, NULL, 0); + prev = msg->flags; idx = log_next(idx); seq++; } @@ -1046,6 +1047,7 @@ static int syslog_print_all(char __user *buf, int size, bool clear) struct log *msg = log_from_idx(idx); len -= msg_print_text(msg, prev, true, NULL, 0); + prev = msg->flags; idx = log_next(idx); seq++; } -- 2.20.1