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From: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
To: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
Cc: zhe.he@windriver.com, rostedt@goodmis.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 4/4] printk: Give error on attempt to set log buffer length to over 4G
Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2018 10:09:32 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20181010080932.h6nln2qsgg4oef4l@pathway.suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20181009135758.GA1419@tigerII.localdomain>

On Tue 2018-10-09 22:57:58, Sergey Senozhatsky wrote:
> On (10/09/18 15:05), Petr Mladek wrote:
> > > 
> > > Yeah, I think we gonna have problems even with a 4G logbuf and a 32-bit
> > > user-space doing syslog(int len).
> > > 
> > > I agree on the "not motivated enough" part ;)
> > 
> > OK, I have pushed an updated patch that has the limit 2GB
> > into printk.git, for-4.20 branch.
> > 
> > Note that it is slightly different than the yesterday's proposal.
> > I made a mistake in testing and still compared with UNIT_MAX.
> > 
> > The pushed version can be seen at
> > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pmladek/printk.git/commit/?h=for-4.20&id=e6fe3e5b7d16e8f146a4ae7fe481bc6e97acde1e
> 
> 
> ---
> 
> > +#define LOG_BUF_LEN_MAX (u32)(1 << 31)
> [..]
> > +	if (size > (u64)LOG_BUF_LEN_MAX) {
> > +		size = (u64)LOG_BUF_LEN_MAX;
> > +		pr_err("log_buf over 2G is not supported.\n");
> > +	}
> 
> Why not INT_MAX?

INT_MAX is 0x7fffffff but we need 0x80000000. I did not find
any predefined macro.

> 
> > +	pr_info("log_buf_len: %u bytes\n", log_buf_len);
> > +	pr_info("early log buf free: %u(%u%%)\n",
> >  		free, (free * 100) / __LOG_BUF_LEN);
> 
> Can 'free * 100' overflow?

Good question. It uses the size of the static buffer. If I count
correctly then we are on the safe side because LOG_BUF_SHIFT
is limited by

	range 12 25

Best Regards,
Petr

  reply	other threads:[~2018-10-10  8:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-09-29 16:45 [PATCH v5 1/4] printk: Fix panic caused by passing log_buf_len to command line zhe.he
2018-09-29 16:45 ` [PATCH v5 2/4] printk: Correct wrong casting zhe.he
2018-10-02  5:50   ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2018-10-08 13:03     ` Petr Mladek
2018-09-29 16:45 ` [PATCH v5 3/4] printk: Add KBUILD_MODNAME and remove a redundant print prefix zhe.he
2018-10-02  5:52   ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2018-10-08 13:04   ` Petr Mladek
2018-09-29 16:45 ` [PATCH v5 4/4] printk: Give error on attempt to set log buffer length to over 4G zhe.he
2018-10-02  5:51   ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2018-10-08 13:59   ` Petr Mladek
2018-10-08 14:59     ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2018-10-09 13:05       ` Petr Mladek
2018-10-09 13:57         ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2018-10-10  8:09           ` Petr Mladek [this message]
2018-10-10  8:21             ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2018-10-08 16:30     ` He Zhe
2018-10-02  5:48 ` [PATCH v5 1/4] printk: Fix panic caused by passing log_buf_len to command line Sergey Senozhatsky
2018-10-08 13:01 ` Petr Mladek

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