[lvc-project] [PATCH v3] rcu-tasks: Fix show_rcu_tasks_trace_gp_kthread buffer overflow

Nikita Kiryushin kiryushin at ancud.ru
Wed Mar 27 19:46:13 MSK 2024


There is a possibility of buffer overflow in
show_rcu_tasks_trace_gp_kthread() if counters, passed
to sprintf() are huge. Counter numbers, needed for this
are unrealistically high, but buffer overflow is still
possible.

Use snprintf() with buffer size instead of sprintf().

Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with SVACE.

Fixes: edf3775f0ad6 ("rcu-tasks: Add count for idle tasks on offline CPUs")
Signed-off-by: Nikita Kiryushin <kiryushin at ancud.ru>
---
v3: Fixed commit message
v2: Use snprintf() as
Steven Rostedt <rostedt at goodmis.org> suggested.
 kernel/rcu/tasks.h | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/rcu/tasks.h b/kernel/rcu/tasks.h
index 147b5945d67a..963ecae3c8e6 100644
--- a/kernel/rcu/tasks.h
+++ b/kernel/rcu/tasks.h
@@ -1994,7 +1994,7 @@ void show_rcu_tasks_trace_gp_kthread(void)
 {
 	char buf[64];
 
-	sprintf(buf, "N%lu h:%lu/%lu/%lu",
+	snprintf(buf, ARRAY_SIZE(buf), "N%lu h:%lu/%lu/%lu",
 		data_race(n_trc_holdouts),
 		data_race(n_heavy_reader_ofl_updates),
 		data_race(n_heavy_reader_updates),
-- 
2.34.1




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