3.16-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
------------------ From: Patrick Palka <[email protected]> commit 000a7d66ec30898f46869be01ab8205b056385d0 upstream. We shouldn't set text_len in the code path that detects printk recursion because text_len corresponds to the length of the string inside textbuf. A few lines down from the line text_len = strlen(recursion_msg); is the line text_len += vscnprintf(text + text_len, ...); So if printk detects recursion, it sets text_len to 29 (the length of recursion_msg) and logs an error. Then the message supplied by the caller of printk is stored inside textbuf but offset by 29 bytes. This means that the output of the recursive call to printk will contain 29 bytes of garbage in front of it. This defect is caused by commit 458df9fd4815 ("printk: remove separate printk_sched buffers and use printk buf instead") which turned the line text_len = vscnprintf(text, ...); into text_len += vscnprintf(text + text_len, ...); To fix this, this patch avoids setting text_len when logging the printk recursion error. This patch also marks unlikely() the branch leading up to this code. Fixes: 458df9fd4815b478 ("printk: remove separate printk_sched buffers and use printk buf instead") Signed-off-by: Patrick Palka <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <[email protected]> Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]> --- kernel/printk/printk.c | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) --- a/kernel/printk/printk.c +++ b/kernel/printk/printk.c @@ -1617,15 +1617,15 @@ asmlinkage int vprintk_emit(int facility raw_spin_lock(&logbuf_lock); logbuf_cpu = this_cpu; - if (recursion_bug) { + if (unlikely(recursion_bug)) { static const char recursion_msg[] = "BUG: recent printk recursion!"; recursion_bug = 0; - text_len = strlen(recursion_msg); /* emit KERN_CRIT message */ printed_len += log_store(0, 2, LOG_PREFIX|LOG_NEWLINE, 0, - NULL, 0, recursion_msg, text_len); + NULL, 0, recursion_msg, + strlen(recursion_msg)); } /* -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
