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Date:   Fri, 15 Jan 2021 13:07:21 +0100
From:   Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
To:     John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de>
Cc:     Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com>,
        Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>,
        Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
        linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] printk: fix buffer overflow potential for print_text()
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On Fri 2021-01-15 13:04:37, Petr Mladek wrote:
> On Thu 2021-01-14 18:10:12, John Ogness wrote:
> > Before commit b6cf8b3f3312 ("printk: add lockless ringbuffer"),
> > msg_print_text() would only write up to size-1 bytes into the
> > provided buffer. Some callers expect this behavior and append
> > a terminator to returned string. In particular:
> > 
> > arch/powerpc/xmon/xmon.c:dump_log_buf()
> > arch/um/kernel/kmsg_dump.c:kmsg_dumper_stdout()
> > 
> > msg_print_text() has been replaced by record_print_text(), which
> > currently fills the full size of the buffer. This causes a
> > buffer overflow for the above callers.
> > 
> > Change record_print_text() so that it will only use size-1 bytes
> > for text data. Also, for paranoia sakes, add a terminator after
> > the text data.
> > 
> > And finally, document this behavior so that it is clear that only
> > size-1 bytes are used and a terminator is added.
> > 
> > Fixes: b6cf8b3f3312 ("printk: add lockless ringbuffer")
> > Signed-off-by: John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de>

I forgot one thing. We should add stable here:

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 5.10+

No need to resend the patch. I'll add it when pushing the patch.

Best Regards,
Petr