On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 5:58 AM, Paul Osmialowski
<p.osmialowsk@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> From: Marcin Niesluchowski <m.niesluchow@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> kmsg* devices write operation wrote no dict along with message
> Due to usage of kmsg devices in userspace dict has been added
> identifying pid, tid and comm of writing process.
Does this affect even the normal /dev/kmsg?
> -static int kmsg_sys_write(int minor, int level, const char *fmt, ...)
> +static size_t set_kmsg_dict(char *buf)
> +{
> + size_t len;
> +
> + len = sprintf(buf, "_PID=%d", task_tgid_nr(current)) + 1;
> + len += sprintf(buf + len, "_TID=%d", task_pid_nr(current)) + 1;
> + memcpy(buf + len, "_COMM=", 6);
> + len += 6;
> + get_task_comm(buf + len, current);
> + while (buf[len] != '\0')
> + len++;
len += strlen(buf); ?
Is it obvious for some reason that this doesn't overflow buf?
Why is task_pid_nr acceptable here? Isn't this intended for use in namespaces?
--Andy
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