From 3e5903eb9cff707301712498aed9e34b3e2ee883 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Petr Mladek Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2019 13:53:48 +0200 Subject: vsprintf: Prevent crash when dereferencing invalid pointers We already prevent crash when dereferencing some obviously broken pointers. But the handling is not consistent. Sometimes we print "(null)" only for pure NULL pointer, sometimes for pointers in the first page and sometimes also for pointers in the last page (error codes). Note that printk() call this code under logbuf_lock. Any recursive printks are redirected to the printk_safe implementation and the messages are stored into per-CPU buffers. These buffers might be eventually flushed in printk_safe_flush_on_panic() but it is not guaranteed. This patch adds a check using probe_kernel_read(). It is not a full-proof test. But it should help to see the error message in 99% situations where the kernel would silently crash otherwise. Also it makes the error handling unified for "%s" and the many %p* specifiers that need to read the data from a given address. We print: + (null) when accessing data on pure pure NULL address + (efault) when accessing data on an invalid address It does not affect the %p* specifiers that just print the given address in some form, namely %pF, %pf, %pS, %ps, %pB, %pK, %px, and plain %p. Note that we print (efault) from security reasons. In fact, the real address can be seen only by %px or eventually %pK. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190417115350.20479-9-pmladek@suse.com To: Rasmus Villemoes Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: "Tobin C . Harding" Cc: Joe Perches Cc: Andrew Morton Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Steven Rostedt Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Reviewed-by: Sergey Senozhatsky Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek --- Documentation/core-api/printk-formats.rst | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) (limited to 'Documentation/core-api/printk-formats.rst') diff --git a/Documentation/core-api/printk-formats.rst b/Documentation/core-api/printk-formats.rst index c37ec7cd9c06..b2cac8d76b66 100644 --- a/Documentation/core-api/printk-formats.rst +++ b/Documentation/core-api/printk-formats.rst @@ -58,6 +58,13 @@ A raw pointer value may be printed with %p which will hash the address before printing. The kernel also supports extended specifiers for printing pointers of different types. +Some of the extended specifiers print the data on the given address instead +of printing the address itself. In this case, the following error messages +might be printed instead of the unreachable information:: + + (null) data on plain NULL address + (efault) data on invalid address + Plain Pointers -------------- -- cgit