This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
rcu: Fix buffer overflow in print_cpu_stall_info()
to the 6.8-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:
rcu-fix-buffer-overflow-in-print_cpu_stall_info.patch
and it can be found in the queue-6.8 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit 7757a57813326223913499929819a95aa1762619
Author: Nikita Kiryushin <kiryushin@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon Apr 1 22:43:15 2024 +0300
rcu: Fix buffer overflow in print_cpu_stall_info()
[ Upstream commit 3758f7d9917bd7ef0482c4184c0ad673b4c4e069 ]
The rcuc-starvation output from print_cpu_stall_info() might overflow the
buffer if there is a huge difference in jiffies difference. The situation
might seem improbable, but computers sometimes get very confused about
time, which can result in full-sized integers, and, in this case,
buffer overflow.
Also, the unsigned jiffies difference is printed using %ld, which is
normally for signed integers. This is intentional for debugging purposes,
but it is not obvious from the code.
This commit therefore changes sprintf() to snprintf() and adds a
clarifying comment about intention of %ld format.
Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with SVACE.
Fixes: 245a62982502 ("rcu: Dump rcuc kthread status for CPUs not reporting quiescent state")
Signed-off-by: Nikita Kiryushin <kiryushin@xxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) <urezki@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/kernel/rcu/tree_stall.h b/kernel/rcu/tree_stall.h
index 5d666428546b0..b5ec62b2d850a 100644
--- a/kernel/rcu/tree_stall.h
+++ b/kernel/rcu/tree_stall.h
@@ -504,7 +504,8 @@ static void print_cpu_stall_info(int cpu)
rcu_dynticks_in_eqs(rcu_dynticks_snap(cpu));
rcuc_starved = rcu_is_rcuc_kthread_starving(rdp, &j);
if (rcuc_starved)
- sprintf(buf, " rcuc=%ld jiffies(starved)", j);
+ // Print signed value, as negative values indicate a probable bug.
+ snprintf(buf, sizeof(buf), " rcuc=%ld jiffies(starved)", j);
pr_err("\t%d-%c%c%c%c: (%lu %s) idle=%04x/%ld/%#lx softirq=%u/%u fqs=%ld%s%s\n",
cpu,
"O."[!!cpu_online(cpu)],
