From: Khalid Aziz <khalid@gonehiking.org>
To: "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@orcam.me.uk>,
"James E.J. Bottomley" <jejb@linux.ibm.com>,
"Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/5] scsi: BusLogic: Avoid unbounded `vsprintf' use
Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2021 13:54:24 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1dd4eb71-05e5-6da4-bfec-01883d1ac7b3@gonehiking.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.21.2104141521190.44318@angie.orcam.me.uk>
On 4/14/21 4:39 PM, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
> Existing `blogic_msg' invocations do not appear to overrun its internal
> buffer of a fixed length of 100, which would cause stack corruption, but
> it's easy to miss with possible further updates and a fix is cheap in
> performance terms, so limit the output produced into the buffer by using
> `vsnprintf' rather than `vsprintf'.
>
> Signed-off-by: Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@orcam.me.uk>
> ---
> drivers/scsi/BusLogic.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> linux-buslogic-vsnprintf.diff
> Index: linux-macro-ide/drivers/scsi/BusLogic.c
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-macro-ide.orig/drivers/scsi/BusLogic.c
> +++ linux-macro-ide/drivers/scsi/BusLogic.c
> @@ -3588,7 +3588,7 @@ static void blogic_msg(enum blogic_msgle
> int len = 0;
>
> va_start(args, adapter);
> - len = vsprintf(buf, fmt, args);
> + len = vsnprintf(buf, sizeof(buf), fmt, args);
> va_end(args);
> if (msglevel == BLOGIC_ANNOUNCE_LEVEL) {
> static int msglines = 0;
>
As Maciej explained in other email that snprintf() does null-terminate
the string, I think this change is fine.
Acked-by: Khalid Aziz <khalid@gonehiking.org>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-04-16 19:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-04-14 22:38 [PATCH 0/5] Bring the BusLogic host bus adapter driver up to Y2021 Maciej W. Rozycki
2021-04-14 22:39 ` [PATCH 1/5] scsi: BusLogic: Fix missing `pr_cont' use Maciej W. Rozycki
2021-04-16 2:08 ` Joe Perches
2021-04-16 10:48 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2021-04-16 14:02 ` Joe Perches
2021-04-16 14:28 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2021-04-16 15:12 ` Joe Perches
2021-04-17 11:39 ` David Laight
2021-04-17 14:01 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2021-04-16 20:41 ` Khalid Aziz
2021-04-17 0:09 ` Joe Perches
2021-04-16 19:34 ` Khalid Aziz
2021-04-14 22:39 ` [PATCH 2/5] scsi: BusLogic: Avoid unbounded `vsprintf' use Maciej W. Rozycki
2021-04-16 19:54 ` Khalid Aziz [this message]
2021-04-14 22:39 ` [PATCH 3/5] scsi: Provide for avoiding trailing allocation length with VPD inquiries Maciej W. Rozycki
2021-04-14 22:39 ` [PATCH 4/5] scsi: Avoid using reserved length byte " Maciej W. Rozycki
2021-04-14 22:39 ` [PATCH 5/5] scsi: Set allocation length to 255 for ATA Information VPD page Maciej W. Rozycki
2021-04-15 12:42 ` Nix
2021-04-16 15:18 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2021-04-16 19:36 ` [PATCH 0/5] Bring the BusLogic host bus adapter driver up to Y2021 Khalid Aziz
2021-04-16 21:25 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2021-04-18 20:21 ` Ondrej Zary
2021-04-19 15:06 ` Khalid Aziz
2021-04-19 16:01 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2021-04-20 2:16 ` Khalid Aziz
2021-04-20 18:02 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2021-04-22 2:36 ` Khalid Aziz
2021-04-22 16:27 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2021-04-22 18:07 ` Khalid Aziz
2021-04-22 23:19 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
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