Re: [PATCH] init - fix building bug and potential buffer overflow

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From: Andrew Morton
Date: Thursday, May 15, 2008 - 1:49 pm

On Fri, 16 May 2008 00:22:14 +0400
"Cyrill Gorcunov" <gorcunov@gmail.com> wrote:


(top-posting repaired)


Like this?


From: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>

This patch fixes a build bug on m68k - gcc decides to emit a call to the
strlen library function, which we don't implement.  Use strlcat() instead.


What is more important - my previous patch

commit e662e1cfd434aa234b72fbc781f1d70211cb785b
Author: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
Date:   Mon May 12 14:02:22 2008 -0700

    init: don't lose initcall return values

Has introduced potential buffer overflow by wrong calculation of string
accumulator size.

Many thanks Andreas Schwab and Geert Uytterhoeven for helping
to catch and fix the bug.

Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---

 init/main.c |    6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff -puN init/main.c~init-fix-building-bug-and-potential-buffer-overflow init/main.c
--- a/init/main.c~init-fix-building-bug-and-potential-buffer-overflow
+++ a/init/main.c
@@ -702,7 +702,7 @@ static void __init do_initcalls(void)
 
 	for (call = __initcall_start; call < __initcall_end; call++) {
 		ktime_t t0, t1, delta;
-		char msgbuf[40];
+		char msgbuf[64];
 		int result;
 
 		if (initcall_debug) {
@@ -729,11 +729,11 @@ static void __init do_initcalls(void)
 			sprintf(msgbuf, "error code %d ", result);
 
 		if (preempt_count() != count) {
-			strncat(msgbuf, "preemption imbalance ", sizeof(msgbuf));
+			strlcat(msgbuf, "preemption imbalance ", sizeof msgbuf);
 			preempt_count() = count;
 		}
 		if (irqs_disabled()) {
-			strncat(msgbuf, "disabled interrupts ", sizeof(msgbuf));
+			strlcat(msgbuf, "disabled interrupts ", sizeof msgbuf);
 			local_irq_enable();
 		}
 		if (msgbuf[0]) {
_

(yeah, I normally parenthesise sizeof too, but this provided 80-col
salvation)

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Re: [PATCH] init - fix building bug and potential buffer o ..., Geert Uytterhoeven, (Thu May 15, 12:47 pm)
Re: [PATCH] init - fix building bug and potential buffer o ..., Andrew Morton, (Thu May 15, 1:49 pm)
[PATCH] Add a void * alternative to print_fn_descriptor_sy ..., Abhijit Menon-Sen, (Thu May 15, 4:41 pm)
Re: [PATCH] init - fix building bug and potential buffer o ..., Geert Uytterhoeven, (Fri May 16, 12:00 am)