From: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com>
To: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Cc: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>,
Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
"Tobin C . Harding" <me@tobin.cc>, Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>,
Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>,
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 10/11] vsprintf: WARN() on invalid pointer access
Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2018 10:28:05 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180426012805.GA3282@jagdpanzerIV> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180425111251.13246-11-pmladek@suse.com>
On (04/25/18 13:12), Petr Mladek wrote:
[..]
> /*
> * This is not a fool-proof test. 99% of the time that this will fault is
> * due to a bad pointer, not one that crosses into bad memory. Just test
> @@ -623,8 +626,12 @@ static const char *check_pointer_access(const void *ptr)
> if (!ptr)
> return "(null)";
>
> - if (probe_kernel_address(ptr, byte))
> + /* Prevent silent crashes when called in printk_safe context. */
> + if (probe_kernel_address(ptr, byte)) {
> + WARN(!panic_on_warn && !test_printf_pointer_access,
> + "vsprintf: invalid pointer address\n");
> return "(efault)";
> + }
Can we have a rate-limited print out here? Or may be even a WARN_ONCE()?
Yes, printk()-s from check_pointer_access() are OK, printk_safe() helps us,
but at the same time every single invalid pointer access printk()-message
will log_store() WARN() extra entries. Theoretically, this can harm. What
do you think?
-ss
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-04-26 1:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-04-25 11:12 [PATCH v5 00/11] vsprintf: Prevent silent crashes and consolidate error handling Petr Mladek
2018-04-25 11:12 ` [PATCH v5 01/11] vsprintf: Shuffle misc pointer to string functions Petr Mladek
2018-04-25 14:57 ` Andy Shevchenko
2018-04-25 11:12 ` [PATCH v5 02/11] vsprintf: Add missing const ptr qualifier to prt_to_id() Petr Mladek
2018-04-25 14:57 ` Andy Shevchenko
2018-04-25 11:12 ` [PATCH v5 03/11] vsprintf: Consistent %pK handling for kptr_restrict == 0 Petr Mladek
2018-04-25 14:58 ` Andy Shevchenko
2018-04-25 11:12 ` [PATCH v5 04/11] vsprintf: Do not check address of well-known strings Petr Mladek
2018-04-25 11:44 ` Andy Shevchenko
2018-04-25 11:12 ` [PATCH v5 05/11] vsprintf: Consolidate handling of unknown pointer specifiers Petr Mladek
2018-04-25 13:08 ` Andy Shevchenko
2018-04-25 11:12 ` [PATCH v5 06/11] vsprintf: Factor out %p[iI] handler as ip_addr_string() Petr Mladek
2018-04-25 13:11 ` Andy Shevchenko
2018-04-25 11:12 ` [PATCH v5 07/11] vsprintf: Factor out %pV handler as va_format() Petr Mladek
2018-04-25 14:56 ` Andy Shevchenko
2018-04-25 11:12 ` [PATCH v5 08/11] vsprintf: Factor out %pO handler as kobject_string() Petr Mladek
2018-04-25 15:01 ` Andy Shevchenko
2018-04-25 11:12 ` [PATCH v5 09/11] vsprintf: Prevent crash when dereferencing invalid pointers Petr Mladek
2018-04-25 15:10 ` Andy Shevchenko
2018-04-25 15:32 ` Andy Shevchenko
2018-04-27 12:47 ` Petr Mladek
2018-05-03 11:55 ` Andy Shevchenko
2018-04-26 21:46 ` kbuild test robot
2018-04-25 11:12 ` [PATCH v5 10/11] vsprintf: WARN() on invalid pointer access Petr Mladek
2018-04-25 12:43 ` Rasmus Villemoes
2018-04-26 1:28 ` Sergey Senozhatsky [this message]
2018-04-27 12:37 ` Petr Mladek
2018-04-25 11:12 ` [PATCH v5 11/11] vsprintf: Avoid confusion between invalid address and value Petr Mladek
2018-04-27 14:10 ` [PATCH v5 00/11] vsprintf: Prevent silent crashes and consolidate error handling Petr Mladek
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