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RAMOOPS: Don't overflow over non-allocated regions
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The current code mis-calculates the ramoops header size, leading to an
overflow over the next record at best, or over a non-allocated region at
worst.  Fix that calculation.

Signed-off-by: Ahmed S. Darwish <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Marco Stornelli <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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a-darwish authored and torvalds committed Dec 28, 2010
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12 changes: 7 additions & 5 deletions drivers/char/ramoops.c
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#include <linux/ramoops.h>

#define RAMOOPS_KERNMSG_HDR "===="
#define RAMOOPS_HEADER_SIZE (5 + sizeof(struct timeval))

#define RECORD_SIZE 4096

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struct ramoops_context, dump);
unsigned long s1_start, s2_start;
unsigned long l1_cpy, l2_cpy;
int res;
char *buf;
int res, hdr_size;
char *buf, *buf_orig;
struct timeval timestamp;

/* Only dump oopses if dump_oops is set */
if (reason == KMSG_DUMP_OOPS && !dump_oops)
return;

buf = (char *)(cxt->virt_addr + (cxt->count * RECORD_SIZE));
buf_orig = buf;

memset(buf, '\0', RECORD_SIZE);
res = sprintf(buf, "%s", RAMOOPS_KERNMSG_HDR);
buf += res;
do_gettimeofday(&timestamp);
res = sprintf(buf, "%lu.%lu\n", (long)timestamp.tv_sec, (long)timestamp.tv_usec);
buf += res;

l2_cpy = min(l2, (unsigned long)(RECORD_SIZE - RAMOOPS_HEADER_SIZE));
l1_cpy = min(l1, (unsigned long)(RECORD_SIZE - RAMOOPS_HEADER_SIZE) - l2_cpy);
hdr_size = buf - buf_orig;
l2_cpy = min(l2, (unsigned long)(RECORD_SIZE - hdr_size));
l1_cpy = min(l1, (unsigned long)(RECORD_SIZE - hdr_size) - l2_cpy);

s2_start = l2 - l2_cpy;
s1_start = l1 - l1_cpy;
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