[PATCH 6.1 081/473] rcu: Fix buffer overflow in print_cpu_stall_info()

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6.1-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Nikita Kiryushin <kiryushin@xxxxxxxx>

[ 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>
---
 kernel/rcu/tree_stall.h | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/rcu/tree_stall.h b/kernel/rcu/tree_stall.h
index 7d15b5b5a235a..11a82404a6cee 100644
--- a/kernel/rcu/tree_stall.h
+++ b/kernel/rcu/tree_stall.h
@@ -474,7 +474,8 @@ 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)],
-- 
2.43.0







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