Description in dump_dmesg_structured() the out_buf size is 4096, and if the length is less than 4080( 4096-16 ) it won't really write out. Normally, after writing one or four chars to the out_buf, it will check the length of out_buf. But in extreme cases, 19 chars was written to the out_buf before checking the length. This may cause the stack corruption. If the length was 4079 (won't realy write out), and then write 19 chars to it. the out_buf will overflow. Solution Change 16 to 32 and always check the lenth of out_buf before move to next record, thus can make sure that at the beginning of a message we always have 32 bytes of buffer. Signed-off-by: arthur <zzou at redhat.com> --- vmcore-dmesg/vmcore-dmesg.c | 7 ++++++- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/vmcore-dmesg/vmcore-dmesg.c b/vmcore-dmesg/vmcore-dmesg.c index 0345660..0d323c1 100644 --- a/vmcore-dmesg/vmcore-dmesg.c +++ b/vmcore-dmesg/vmcore-dmesg.c @@ -674,7 +674,7 @@ static void dump_dmesg_structured(int fd) else out_buf[len++] = c; - if (len >= OUT_BUF_SIZE - 16) { + if (len >= OUT_BUF_SIZE - 32) { write_to_stdout(out_buf, len); len = 0; } @@ -682,6 +682,11 @@ static void dump_dmesg_structured(int fd) out_buf[len++] = '\n'; + if (len >= OUT_BUF_SIZE - 32) { + write_to_stdout(out_buf, len); + len = 0; + } + /* Move to next record */ current_idx = log_next(buf, current_idx); } -- 1.8.4.2