Patch "um: Don't use vfprintf() for os_info()" has been added to the 6.1-stable tree

[Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    um: Don't use vfprintf() for os_info()

to the 6.1-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     um-don-t-use-vfprintf-for-os_info.patch
and it can be found in the queue-6.1 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.



commit d2174a9f5999254cd191071ce1fd88bf600cef51
Author: Benjamin Berg <benjamin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date:   Fri Nov 10 12:03:41 2023 +0100

    um: Don't use vfprintf() for os_info()
    
    [ Upstream commit 236f9fe39b02c15fa5530b53e9cca48354394389 ]
    
    The threads allocated inside the kernel have only a single page of
    stack. Unfortunately, the vfprintf function in standard glibc may use
    too much stack-space, overflowing it.
    
    To make os_info safe to be used by helper threads, use the kernel
    vscnprintf function into a smallish buffer and write out the information
    to stderr.
    
    Signed-off-by: Benjamin Berg <benjamin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
    Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@xxxxxx>
    Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>

diff --git a/arch/um/os-Linux/util.c b/arch/um/os-Linux/util.c
index fc0f2a9dee5a..1dca4ffbd572 100644
--- a/arch/um/os-Linux/util.c
+++ b/arch/um/os-Linux/util.c
@@ -173,23 +173,38 @@ __uml_setup("quiet", quiet_cmd_param,
 "quiet\n"
 "    Turns off information messages during boot.\n\n");
 
+/*
+ * The os_info/os_warn functions will be called by helper threads. These
+ * have a very limited stack size and using the libc formatting functions
+ * may overflow the stack.
+ * So pull in the kernel vscnprintf and use that instead with a fixed
+ * on-stack buffer.
+ */
+int vscnprintf(char *buf, size_t size, const char *fmt, va_list args);
+
 void os_info(const char *fmt, ...)
 {
+	char buf[256];
 	va_list list;
+	int len;
 
 	if (quiet_info)
 		return;
 
 	va_start(list, fmt);
-	vfprintf(stderr, fmt, list);
+	len = vscnprintf(buf, sizeof(buf), fmt, list);
+	fwrite(buf, len, 1, stderr);
 	va_end(list);
 }
 
 void os_warn(const char *fmt, ...)
 {
+	char buf[256];
 	va_list list;
+	int len;
 
 	va_start(list, fmt);
-	vfprintf(stderr, fmt, list);
+	len = vscnprintf(buf, sizeof(buf), fmt, list);
+	fwrite(buf, len, 1, stderr);
 	va_end(list);
 }