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authorJeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>2009-03-30 14:02:24 -0400
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2009-03-30 12:16:36 -0700
commit78b6513d2881f1a759fb9825a036d926392de084 (patch)
tree4839959cb1e322dbabbaba2038fd7c85cb26cdff /fs/reiserfs
parentfd7cb031efb1dd71cb731668e2f597d9e61acdcb (diff)
reiserfs: add locking around error buffer
The formatting of the error buffer is race prone. It uses static buffers for both formatting and output. While overwriting the error buffer can product garbled output, overwriting the format buffer with incompatible % directives can cause crashes. Signed-off-by: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/reiserfs')
-rw-r--r--fs/reiserfs/prints.c5
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/fs/reiserfs/prints.c b/fs/reiserfs/prints.c
index b87b23717c23..de71372f0dfe 100644
--- a/fs/reiserfs/prints.c
+++ b/fs/reiserfs/prints.c
@@ -184,7 +184,7 @@ static char *is_there_reiserfs_struct(char *fmt, int *what)
printk ("bad key %lu %lu %lu %lu", key->k_dir_id, key->k_objectid,
key->k_offset, key->k_uniqueness);
*/
-
+static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(error_lock);
static void prepare_error_buf(const char *fmt, va_list args)
{
char *fmt1 = fmt_buf;
@@ -192,6 +192,8 @@ static void prepare_error_buf(const char *fmt, va_list args)
char *p = error_buf;
int what;
+ spin_lock(&error_lock);
+
strcpy(fmt1, fmt);
while ((k = is_there_reiserfs_struct(fmt1, &what)) != NULL) {
@@ -237,6 +239,7 @@ static void prepare_error_buf(const char *fmt, va_list args)
fmt1 = k + 2;
}
vsprintf(p, fmt1, args);
+ spin_unlock(&error_lock);
}