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authorAnton Vorontsov <anton.vorontsov@linaro.org>2012-07-19 15:47:11 -0700
committerAnton Vorontsov <anton.vorontsov@linaro.org>2012-08-04 16:16:43 -0700
commita384f6411734e763daa4bae30e8ff170d7d4c3e2 (patch)
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pstore/ram: Fix possible NULL dereference
We can dereference 'cxt->cprz' if console and dump logging are disabled (which is unlikely, but still possible to do). This patch fixes the issue by changing the code so that we don't dereference przs at all, we can just calculate bufsize from console_size and record_size values. Plus, while at it, the patch improves the buffer size calculation. After Kay's printk rework, we know the optimal buffer size for console logging -- it is LOG_LINE_MAX (defined privately in printk.c). Previously, if only console logging was enabled, we would allocate unnecessary large buffer in pstore, while we only need LOG_LINE_MAX. (Pstore console logging is still capable of handling buffers > LOG_LINE_MAX, it will just do multiple calls to psinfo->write). Note that I don't export the constant, since we will do even a better thing soon: we will switch console logging to a new write_buf API, which will eliminate the need for the additional buffer; and so we won't need the constant. Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov <anton.vorontsov@linaro.org> Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/pstore')
-rw-r--r--fs/pstore/ram.c13
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/fs/pstore/ram.c b/fs/pstore/ram.c
index 0b311bc18916..bcd1bbd42598 100644
--- a/fs/pstore/ram.c
+++ b/fs/pstore/ram.c
@@ -414,13 +414,14 @@ static int __devinit ramoops_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
cxt->pstore.data = cxt;
/*
- * Console can handle any buffer size, so prefer dumps buffer
- * size since usually it is smaller.
+ * Console can handle any buffer size, so prefer LOG_LINE_MAX. If we
+ * have to handle dumps, we must have at least record_size buffer. And
+ * for ftrace, bufsize is irrelevant (if bufsize is 0, buf will be
+ * ZERO_SIZE_PTR).
*/
- if (cxt->przs)
- cxt->pstore.bufsize = cxt->przs[0]->buffer_size;
- else
- cxt->pstore.bufsize = cxt->cprz->buffer_size;
+ if (cxt->console_size)
+ cxt->pstore.bufsize = 1024; /* LOG_LINE_MAX */
+ cxt->pstore.bufsize = max(cxt->record_size, cxt->pstore.bufsize);
cxt->pstore.buf = kmalloc(cxt->pstore.bufsize, GFP_KERNEL);
spin_lock_init(&cxt->pstore.buf_lock);
if (!cxt->pstore.buf) {