Dear all,

I just noticed that replying to my earlier email thread failed, and that
I thereby created a new thread. The original thread is the following one:
https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/2/16/274

I am sorry for the confusion!

Best,
Norbert


On 05/23/2018 08:22 AM, Norbert Manthey wrote:
> The current implementation will leak a byte to the log via memmove. The
> specified 27 bytes are off-by-one, as the payload is 25 bytes, and the
> termination character is only one byte large. To avoid this, factor out
> the error message, and furthermore make the second parameter of the
> append_entry function const.
>
> The full trace is as follows:
>
> In function ‘memmove’,
>    from ‘append_entry’ at
>         drivers/gpu/drm/amd/display/dc/basics/logger.c:257:2,
>    from ‘dm_logger_append_va’ at
>         drivers/gpu/drm/amd/display/dc/basics/logger.c:348:4
>    detected read beyond size of object passed as 2nd parameter
>
> Signed-off-by: Norbert Manthey <nmant...@amazon.de>
> ---
>  drivers/gpu/drm/amd/display/dc/basics/logger.c | 6 ++++--
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/display/dc/basics/logger.c 
> b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/display/dc/basics/logger.c
> index 31bee05..6ba8d0c 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/display/dc/basics/logger.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/display/dc/basics/logger.c
> @@ -244,7 +244,7 @@ static void log_heading(struct log_entry *entry)
>  
>  static void append_entry(
>               struct log_entry *entry,
> -             char *buffer,
> +             const char *buffer,
>               uint32_t buf_size)
>  {
>       if (!entry->buf ||
> @@ -346,7 +346,9 @@ void dm_logger_append_va(
>               if (size < LOG_MAX_LINE_SIZE - 1) {
>                       append_entry(entry, buffer, size);
>               } else {
> -                     append_entry(entry, "LOG_ERROR, line too long\n", 27);
> +                     static const char msg[] = "LOG_ERROR, line too long\n";
> +
> +                     append_entry(entry, msg, sizeof(msg));
>               }
>       }
>  }

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