From: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
To: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>,
Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>
Cc: 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 00/11] vsprintf: Prevent silent crashes and consolidate error handling
Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2018 16:10:57 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180427141057.bzyw4qsnm7qfqqdd@pathway.suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180425111251.13246-1-pmladek@suse.com>
On Wed 2018-04-25 13:12:40, Petr Mladek wrote:
> Crash in vsprintf() might be silent when it happens under logbuf_lock
> in vprintk_emit(). This patch set prevents most of the crashes by probing
> the address. The check is done only by %s and some %p* specifiers that need
> to dereference the address.
>
> Only the first byte of the address is checked to keep it simple. It should
> be enough to catch most problems.
>
> The check is explicitly done in each function that does the dereference.
> It helps to avoid the questionable strchr() of affected specifiers. This
> change motivated me to do some preparation patches that consolidated
> the error handling and cleaned the code a bit.
>
> I did my best to address the feedback. Note that there is still the
> (efault) error message. But it is accompanied with WARN() when
> panic_on_warn is not enabled. I hope that it makes it more acceptable.
>
>
> Changes against v4:
>
> + rebased on top of
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pmladek/printk.git for-4.18
> + Added missing conts into ptr_to_ind() in a separate patch
> + Renamed __string to valid_string()
> + Avoid WARN() for invalid poimter specifiers
> + Removed noinline_for_stack where it was not really useful
> + WARN() when accessing invalid non-NULL address
Thanks a lot everyone for feedback. I'll incorporate it into v6. It
might take some time.
BTW: I also got report from 0day robot about that the size of vmlinux
increased by 545 bytes in i386-tinyconfig. I guess that it is mainly
because all the copies of
if (!valid_pointer_access(&buf, end, bdev, spec))
return buf;
got inlined. I guess that I would need to address it somehow
as well.
Best Regards,
Petr
prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-04-27 14:11 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
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 ` Petr Mladek [this message]
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