Found another buffer overflow in this code that was introduced by e3756477aec028427fec767957c0d4b6cfb87208 trying to solve a related overflow. strace still shows a problem: syslog(0x3, 0x7fffd65375d0, 0x1000) = 4107 The first record output was in the middle of a LOG_CONT line: <4>[ 2.974999] 0x0000000000000500-0x000000000000052f SystemIO conflicts with Region \GPIO 1 (20130328/utaddress-251) This happens because when discarding records to be less than size, the first line may expand due to there being no previous record. So we must use prev = 0 to calculate if it fits or we should continue discarding. CC: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Debabrata Banerjee <dbanerje@xxxxxxxxxx> --- kernel/printk/printk.c | 18 +++++++++++++----- 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/printk/printk.c b/kernel/printk/printk.c index b1d255f..bc67990 100644 --- a/kernel/printk/printk.c +++ b/kernel/printk/printk.c @@ -1063,13 +1063,17 @@ static int syslog_print_all(char __user *buf, int size, bool clear) seq = clear_seq; idx = clear_idx; prev = 0; - while (len > size && seq < log_next_seq) { + while (seq < log_next_seq) { struct printk_log *msg = log_from_idx(idx); - len -= msg_print_text(msg, prev, true, NULL, 0); - prev = msg->flags; idx = log_next(idx); seq++; + + if (len - msg_print_text(msg, 0, true, NULL, 0) <= size) + break; + + len -= msg_print_text(msg, prev, true, NULL, 0); + prev = msg->flags; } /* last message fitting into this dump */ @@ -2774,12 +2778,16 @@ bool kmsg_dump_get_buffer(struct kmsg_dumper *dumper, bool syslog, seq = dumper->cur_seq; idx = dumper->cur_idx; prev = 0; - while (l > size && seq < dumper->next_seq) { + while (seq < dumper->next_seq) { struct printk_log *msg = log_from_idx(idx); - l -= msg_print_text(msg, prev, true, NULL, 0); idx = log_next(idx); seq++; + + if ( l - msg_print_text(msg, 0, true, NULL, 0) <= size) + break; + + l -= msg_print_text(msg, prev, true, NULL, 0); prev = msg->flags; } -- 1.8.3.4 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html