Thanks Heiko. This patch hasn't been tested yet. I've modifed the Signed=off-by to make it identical to From. Here is the patch: ------------------------------------------------------- This patch fixed bugzilla #12965: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12965 The original code contains some inproper use of sprintf function where a buffer is used both as input string as well as output string. It should remember the written bytes in the previous and use that as the offset for later writing. Also replace sprintf with snprintf. Signed-off-by: Chen Liu <chenliu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/s390/kernel/early.c | 16 +++++++++++----- 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/s390/kernel/early.c b/arch/s390/kernel/early.c --- a/arch/s390/kernel/early.c +++ b/arch/s390/kernel/early.c @@ -94,6 +94,7 @@ static noinline __init void create_kerne unsigned int sinitrd_pfn, einitrd_pfn; #endif int response; + int hlen; size_t len; char *savesys_ptr; char defsys_cmd[DEFSYS_CMD_SIZE]; @@ -124,22 +125,27 @@ static noinline __init void create_kerne end_pfn = PFN_UP(__pa(&_end)); min_size = end_pfn << 2; - sprintf(defsys_cmd, "DEFSYS %s 00000-%.5X EW %.5X-%.5X SR %.5X-%.5X", + snprintf(defsys_cmd, sizeof(defsys_cmd), + "DEFSYS %s 00000-%.5X EW %.5X-%.5X SR %.5X-%.5X", kernel_nss_name, stext_pfn - 1, stext_pfn, eshared_pfn - 1, eshared_pfn, end_pfn); + defsys_cmd[DEFSYS_CMD_SIZE - 1] = '\0'; #ifdef CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD if (INITRD_START && INITRD_SIZE) { sinitrd_pfn = PFN_DOWN(__pa(INITRD_START)); einitrd_pfn = PFN_UP(__pa(INITRD_START + INITRD_SIZE)); min_size = einitrd_pfn << 2; - sprintf(defsys_cmd, "%s EW %.5X-%.5X", defsys_cmd, - sinitrd_pfn, einitrd_pfn); + hlen += snprintf(defsys_cmd, DEFSYS_CMD_SIZE - hlen, + " EW %.5X-%.5X", defsys_cmd, + sinitrd_pfn, einitrd_pfn); + defsys_cmd[DEFSYS_CMD_SIZE - 1] = '\0'; } #endif - sprintf(defsys_cmd, "%s EW MINSIZE=%.7iK PARMREGS=0-13", - defsys_cmd, min_size); + snprintf(defsys_cmd + hlen, DEFSYS_CMD_SIZE - hlen, + " EW MINSIZE=%.7iK PARMREGS=0-13", min_size); + defsys_cmd[DEFSYS_CMD_SIZE - 1] = '\0'; sprintf(savesys_cmd, "SAVESYS %s \n IPL %s", kernel_nss_name, kernel_nss_name); -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-s390" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html