It seems the request to vsnprintf will try to write to the byte past the end of the maximum buffer, so trim the length by one byte. [76973.700434] BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at 0000000000001000 [76973.700468] IP: [<ffffffff811fb84d>] strnlen+0xd/0x40 [76973.700494] PGD 10387b067 PUD 15411a067 PMD 0 [76973.700515] Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP [76973.700529] Modules linked in: cpufreq_userspace cpufreq_powersave cpufreq_stats cpufreq_conservative binfmt_misc nfs lockd fscache sunrpc coretemp crc32c_intel ghash_clmulni_intel aesni_intel aes_x86_64 ablk_helper cryptd lrw gf128mul glue_helper iTCO_wdt iTCO_vendor_support microcode i2c_i801 lpc_ich mfd_core acpi_cpufreq mperf evdev processor ext4 crc16 jbd2 mbcache sd_mod crc_t10dif ahci libahci libata scsi_mod thermal fan [76973.700718] CPU: 2 PID: 13279 Comm: intel_error_dec Not tainted 3.10.0-rc6+ #99 [76973.700746] Hardware name: Intel Corporation Shark Bay Client platform/Flathead Creek Crb, BIOS HSWLPTU1.86C.0109.R03.1301282055 01/28/2013 [76973.700793] task: ffff880153fa2100 ti: ffff880152310000 task.ti: ffff880152310000 [76973.700820] RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff811fb84d>] [<ffffffff811fb84d>] strnlen+0xd/0x40 [76973.700849] RSP: 0018:ffff880152311cb0 EFLAGS: 00010286 [76973.700869] RAX: ffffffff81774000 RBX: ffff880154000072 RCX: fffffffffffffffe [76973.700895] RDX: 0000000000001000 RSI: ffffffffffffffff RDI: 0000000000001000 [76973.700920] RBP: ffff880152311cb0 R08: 000000000000ffff R09: 000000000000ffff [76973.700948] R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 000000000000000f R12: 0000000000001000 [76973.700974] R13: ffff880154001000 R14: 00000000ffffffff R15: 0000000000000000 [76973.701000] FS: 00007f00fc942880(0000) GS:ffff88015e300000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 [76973.701029] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 [76973.701050] CR2: 0000000000001000 CR3: 000000015939a000 CR4: 00000000001407e0 [76973.701075] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000 [76973.701103] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400 [76973.701128] Stack: [76973.701136] ffff880152311ce8 ffffffff811fdafb ffff880154000072 ffff880154001000 [76973.701167] ffff880152311d58 ffffffff817a703e ffffffff817a703e ffff880152311d48 [76973.701198] ffffffff811fe8a9 0000000a0000ffff 0000000000000001 ffff880154000000 [76973.701229] Call Trace: [76973.701242] [<ffffffff811fdafb>] string.isra.5+0x3b/0xf0 [76973.701264] [<ffffffff811fe8a9>] vsnprintf+0x1d9/0x670 [76973.701286] [<ffffffff812d13c9>] i915_error_printf+0xb9/0x160 [76973.701311] [<ffffffff812d15fc>] print_error_buffers+0x18c/0x1e0 [76973.701335] [<ffffffff812d1a5e>] i915_error_state_read+0x40e/0x8e0 [76973.701361] [<ffffffff81114527>] vfs_read+0x97/0x160 [76973.701381] [<ffffffff81114f74>] SyS_read+0x44/0x90 [76973.701403] [<ffffffff8141a552>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b [76973.701424] Code: c0 01 80 38 00 75 f7 48 29 f8 5d c3 31 c0 5d c3 66 66 66 66 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 55 48 8d 4e ff 48 85 f6 48 89 e5 74 2a <80> 3f 00 74 25 48 89 f8 31 d2 eb 10 0f 1f 80 00 00 00 00 48 83 [76973.701535] RIP [<ffffffff811fb84d>] strnlen+0xd/0x40 [76973.701550] RSP <ffff880152311cb0> [76973.701559] CR2: 0000000000001000 Regression from commit edc3d8848dc9fe2a470316363dab8ef211d77e01 Author: Mika Kuoppala <mika.kuoppala at linux.intel.com> Date: Thu May 23 13:55:35 2013 +0300 drm/i915: avoid big kmallocs on reading error state Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris at chris-wilson.co.uk> Cc: Mika Kuoppala <mika.kuoppala at linux.intel.com> --- drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_debugfs.c | 18 ++++++++++++++---- 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_debugfs.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_debugfs.c index ec64f95..c436af9 100644 --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_debugfs.c +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_debugfs.c @@ -653,7 +653,7 @@ static const char *purgeable_flag(int purgeable) static void i915_error_vprintf(struct drm_i915_error_state_buf *e, const char *f, va_list args) { - unsigned len; + int len, rem; if (!e->err && WARN(e->bytes > (e->size - 1), "overflow")) { e->err = -ENOSPC; @@ -666,6 +666,11 @@ static void i915_error_vprintf(struct drm_i915_error_state_buf *e, /* Seek the first printf which is hits start position */ if (e->pos < e->start) { len = vsnprintf(NULL, 0, f, args); + if (len == -1) { + e->err = -EIO; + return; + } + if (e->pos + len <= e->start) { e->pos += len; return; @@ -678,9 +683,14 @@ static void i915_error_vprintf(struct drm_i915_error_state_buf *e, } } - len = vsnprintf(e->buf + e->bytes, e->size - e->bytes, f, args); - if (len >= e->size - e->bytes) - len = e->size - e->bytes - 1; + rem = e->size - e->bytes - 1; + len = vsnprintf(e->buf + e->bytes, rem, f, args); + if (len == -1) { + e->err = -EIO; + return; + } + if (len > rem) + len = rem; /* If this is first printf in this window, adjust it so that * start position matches start of the buffer -- 1.8.3.1