The patch titled ramoops: don't overflow over non-allocated regions has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is ramoops-dont-overflow-over-non-allocated-regions.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** See http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: ramoops: don't overflow over non-allocated regions From: "Ahmed S. Darwish" <darwish.07@xxxxxxxxx> Current code mis-calculates the ramoops header size, leading to an overflow over the next record at best, or over a non-allocated region at worst. Fix that calculation. Signed-off-by: Ahmed S. Darwish <darwish.07@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Kyungmin Park <kyungmin.park@xxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Marco Stornelli <marco.stornelli@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/char/ramoops.c | 12 +++++++----- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff -puN drivers/char/ramoops.c~ramoops-dont-overflow-over-non-allocated-regions drivers/char/ramoops.c --- a/drivers/char/ramoops.c~ramoops-dont-overflow-over-non-allocated-regions +++ a/drivers/char/ramoops.c @@ -29,7 +29,6 @@ #include <linux/ramoops.h> #define RAMOOPS_KERNMSG_HDR "====" -#define RAMOOPS_HEADER_SIZE (5 + sizeof(struct timeval)) #define RECORD_SIZE 4096 @@ -65,8 +64,8 @@ static void ramoops_do_dump(struct kmsg_ struct ramoops_context, dump); unsigned long s1_start, s2_start; unsigned long l1_cpy, l2_cpy; - int res; - char *buf; + int res, hdr_size; + char *buf, *buf_orig; struct timeval timestamp; /* Only dump oopses if dump_oops is set */ @@ -74,6 +73,8 @@ static void ramoops_do_dump(struct kmsg_ return; buf = (char *)(cxt->virt_addr + (cxt->count * RECORD_SIZE)); + buf_orig = buf; + memset(buf, '\0', RECORD_SIZE); res = sprintf(buf, "%s", RAMOOPS_KERNMSG_HDR); buf += res; @@ -81,8 +82,9 @@ static void ramoops_do_dump(struct kmsg_ res = sprintf(buf, "%lu.%lu\n", (long)timestamp.tv_sec, (long)timestamp.tv_usec); buf += res; - l2_cpy = min(l2, (unsigned long)(RECORD_SIZE - RAMOOPS_HEADER_SIZE)); - l1_cpy = min(l1, (unsigned long)(RECORD_SIZE - RAMOOPS_HEADER_SIZE) - l2_cpy); + hdr_size = buf - buf_orig; + l2_cpy = min(l2, (unsigned long)(RECORD_SIZE - hdr_size)); + l1_cpy = min(l1, (unsigned long)(RECORD_SIZE - hdr_size) - l2_cpy); s2_start = l2 - l2_cpy; s1_start = l1 - l1_cpy; _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from darwish.07@xxxxxxxxx are ramoops-dont-overflow-over-non-allocated-regions.patch ramoops-fix-types-remove-typecasts.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html