user/sven/linux.git/kernel/printk.c, branch v3.4.39

printk: fix buffer overflow when calling log_prefix function from call_console_drivers

2013-02-21T18:04:57Z

This patch corrects a buffer overflow in kernels from 3.0 to 3.4 when calling log_prefix() function from call_console_drivers(). This bug existed in previous releases but has been revealed with commit 162a7e7500f9664636e649ba59defe541b7c2c60 (2.6.39 => 3.0) that made changes about how to allocate memory for early printk buffer (use of memblock_alloc). It disappears with commit 7ff9554bb578ba02166071d2d487b7fc7d860d62 (3.4 => 3.5) that does a refactoring of printk buffer management. In log_prefix(), the access to "p[0]", "p[1]", "p[2]" or "simple_strtoul(&p[1], &endp, 10)" may cause a buffer overflow as this function is called from call_console_drivers by passing "&LOG_BUF(cur_index)" where the index must be masked to do not exceed the buffer's boundary. The trick is to prepare in call_console_drivers() a buffer with the necessary data (PRI field of syslog message) to be safely evaluated in log_prefix(). This patch can be applied to stable kernel branches 3.0.y, 3.2.y and 3.4.y. Without this patch, one can freeze a server running this loop from shell : $ export DUMMY=`cat /dev/urandom | tr -dc '12345AZERTYUIOPQSDFGHJKLMWXCVBNazertyuiopqsdfghjklmwxcvbn' | head -c255` $ while true do ; echo $DUMMY > /dev/kmsg ; done The "server freeze" depends on where memblock_alloc does allocate printk buffer : if the buffer overflow is inside another kernel allocation the problem may not be revealed, else the server may hangs up. Signed-off-by: Alexandre SIMON Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Merge branch 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

2012-03-20T17:31:44Z

Pull scheduler changes for v3.4 from Ingo Molnar * 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (27 commits) printk: Make it compile with !CONFIG_PRINTK sched/x86: Fix overflow in cyc2ns_offset sched: Fix nohz load accounting -- again! sched: Update yield() docs printk/sched: Introduce special printk_sched() for those awkward moments sched/nohz: Correctly initialize 'next_balance' in 'nohz' idle balancer sched: Cleanup cpu_active madness sched: Fix load-balance wreckage sched: Clean up parameter passing of proc_sched_autogroup_set_nice() sched: Ditch per cgroup task lists for load-balancing sched: Rename load-balancing fields sched: Move load-balancing arguments into helper struct sched/rt: Do not submit new work when PI-blocked sched/rt: Prevent idle task boosting sched/wait: Add __wake_up_all_locked() API sched/rt: Document scheduler related skip-resched-check sites sched/rt: Use schedule_preempt_disabled() sched/rt: Add schedule_preempt_disabled() sched/rt: Do not throttle when PI boosting sched/rt: Keep period timer ticking when rt throttling is active ...

printk: Make it compile with !CONFIG_PRINTK

2012-03-15T12:38:54Z

Commit 3ccf3e830615 ("printk/sched: Introduce special printk_sched() for those awkward moments") overlooked an #ifdef, so move code around to respect these directives. Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Randy Dunlap Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1331811337.18960.179.camel@twins Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

Merge tag 'v3.3-rc7' into sched/core

2012-03-13T15:26:52Z

Merge reason: merge back final fixes, prepare for the merge window. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

Merge branch 'perf/urgent' into perf/core

2012-03-12T19:44:11Z

Merge reason: We are going to queue up a dependent patch. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

printk/sched: Introduce special printk_sched() for those awkward moments

2012-03-12T19:43:16Z

There's a few awkward printk()s inside of scheduler guts that people prefer to keep but really are rather deadlock prone. Fudge around it by storing the text in a per-cpu buffer and poll it using the existing printk_tick() handler. This will drop output when its more frequent than once a tick, however only the affinity thing could possible go that fast and for that just one should suffice to notify the admin he's done something silly.. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Andrew Morton Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-wua3lmkt3dg8nfts66o6brne@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

kmsg_dump: don't run on non-error paths by default

2012-03-05T23:49:42Z

Since commit 04c6862c055f ("kmsg_dump: add kmsg_dump() calls to the reboot, halt, poweroff and emergency_restart paths"), kmsg_dump() gets run on normal paths including poweroff and reboot. This is less than ideal given pstore implementations that can only represent single backtraces, since a reboot may overwrite a stored oops before it's been picked up by userspace. In addition, some pstore backends may have low performance and provide a significant delay in reboot as a result. This patch adds a printk.always_kmsg_dump kernel parameter (which can also be changed from userspace). Without it, the code will only be run on failure paths rather than on normal paths. The option can be enabled in environments where there's a desire to attempt to audit whether or not a reboot was cleanly requested or not. Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett Acked-by: Seiji Aguchi Cc: Seiji Aguchi Cc: David Woodhouse Cc: Marco Stornelli Cc: Artem Bityutskiy Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro Cc: Vivek Goyal Cc: Don Zickus Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

printk/tracing: Add console output tracing

2012-02-13T18:46:05Z

Add a printk.console trace point to record any printk messages into the trace, regardless of the current console loglevel. This can help correlate (existing) printk debugging with other tracing. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1322161388.5366.54.camel@jlt3.sipsolutions.net Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Christoph Hellwig Cc: Ingo Molnar Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt

module_param: make bool parameters really bool (core code)

2012-01-12T23:02:18Z

module_param(bool) used to counter-intuitively take an int. In fddd5201 (mid-2009) we allowed bool or int/unsigned int using a messy trick. It's time to remove the int/unsigned int option. For this version it'll simply give a warning, but it'll break next kernel version. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell

printk: fix unnecessary module_param_name.

2012-01-12T23:02:17Z

You don't need module_param_name if the name is the same! Cc: Yanmin Zhang Cc: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell