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authorPeter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com>2015-03-01 10:11:05 -0500
committerLuis Henriques <luis.henriques@canonical.com>2015-03-18 15:07:22 +0000
commit11f41b27f9a902ec0a5ebc0bf4ce506341bb830c (patch)
tree4d25e8334add00eb0682a2a962af787d9dcbddb3
parentc468bf26c02d9aa8e3264bc00af07c34306a5c7b (diff)
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console: Fix console name size mismatch
commit 30a22c215a0007603ffc08021f2e8b64018517dd upstream. commit 6ae9200f2cab7 ("enlarge console.name") increased the storage for the console name to 16 bytes, but not the corresponding struct console_cmdline::name storage. Console names longer than 8 bytes cause read beyond end-of-string and failure to match console; I'm not sure if there are other unexpected consequences. Signed-off-by: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques@canonical.com>
-rw-r--r--kernel/printk/console_cmdline.h2
-rw-r--r--kernel/printk/printk.c1
2 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/printk/console_cmdline.h b/kernel/printk/console_cmdline.h
index cbd69d842341..2ca4a8b5fe57 100644
--- a/kernel/printk/console_cmdline.h
+++ b/kernel/printk/console_cmdline.h
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
struct console_cmdline
{
- char name[8]; /* Name of the driver */
+ char name[16]; /* Name of the driver */
int index; /* Minor dev. to use */
char *options; /* Options for the driver */
#ifdef CONFIG_A11Y_BRAILLE_CONSOLE
diff --git a/kernel/printk/printk.c b/kernel/printk/printk.c
index 971285d5b7a0..cce20d2f38d5 100644
--- a/kernel/printk/printk.c
+++ b/kernel/printk/printk.c
@@ -2388,6 +2388,7 @@ void register_console(struct console *newcon)
for (i = 0, c = console_cmdline;
i < MAX_CMDLINECONSOLES && c->name[0];
i++, c++) {
+ BUILD_BUG_ON(sizeof(c->name) != sizeof(newcon->name));
if (strcmp(c->name, newcon->name) != 0)
continue;
if (newcon->index >= 0 &&