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authorVivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>2012-07-18 09:33:51 -0400
committerSimon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>2012-07-24 09:27:01 +0900
commitc96e7736d85e40685939011e6d51b3c0a28739a3 (patch)
treee7e0c86602c7f81c7b5ba0f7b541748d79f2e43f /vmcore-dmesg
parent583c81c1c5e52520d18efc612c5e6894f4a4ed10 (diff)
vmcore-dmesg: Do not write beyond end of buffer
scan_vmcoreinfo() currently assumes that every vmcoreinfo note line ends with \n and overwrites new line with \0. But last entry in note, CRASHTIME= does not end with \n and this leads to corrupting memory as we write beyond end of buffer. Normally things were fine but when I added some fields to vmcoreinfo, this bug started showing and vmcore-dmesg started crashing. I am planning to send a patch to fix this in kernel but it might be good idea to handle this case in user space too so that vmcore-dmesg works fine with cores of older kernels. Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
Diffstat (limited to 'vmcore-dmesg')
-rw-r--r--vmcore-dmesg/vmcore-dmesg.c29
1 files changed, 28 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/vmcore-dmesg/vmcore-dmesg.c b/vmcore-dmesg/vmcore-dmesg.c
index 8518150..2e692de 100644
--- a/vmcore-dmesg/vmcore-dmesg.c
+++ b/vmcore-dmesg/vmcore-dmesg.c
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@
#include <sys/stat.h>
#include <fcntl.h>
#include <elf.h>
+#include <stdbool.h>
/* The 32bit and 64bit note headers make it clear we don't care */
typedef Elf32_Nhdr Elf_Nhdr;
@@ -220,6 +221,9 @@ static void scan_vmcoreinfo(char *start, size_t size)
{
char *last = start + size - 1;
char *pos, *eol;
+ char temp_buf[1024];
+ bool last_line = false;
+
#define SYMBOL(sym) { \
.str = "SYMBOL(" #sym ")=", \
.name = #sym, \
@@ -243,7 +247,27 @@ static void scan_vmcoreinfo(char *start, size_t size)
/* Find the end of the current line */
for (eol = pos; (eol <= last) && (*eol != '\n') ; eol++)
;
- len = eol - pos + 1;
+ if (eol > last) {
+ /*
+ * We did not find \n and note ended. Currently kernel
+ * is appending last field CRASH_TIME without \n. It
+ * is ugly but handle it.
+ */
+ eol = last;
+ len = eol - pos + 1;
+ if (len >= sizeof(temp_buf))
+ len = sizeof(temp_buf) - 1;
+ strncpy(temp_buf, pos, len);
+ temp_buf[len + 1] = '\0';
+
+ pos = temp_buf;
+ len = len + 1;
+ eol = pos + len -1;
+ last_line = true;
+ } else {
+ len = eol - pos + 1;
+ }
+
/* Stomp the last character so I am guaranteed a terminating null */
*eol = '\0';
/* Copy OSRELEASE if I see it */
@@ -266,6 +290,9 @@ static void scan_vmcoreinfo(char *start, size_t size)
/* Remember the virtual address */
*symbol[i].vaddr = vaddr;
}
+
+ if (last_line)
+ break;
}
}