This is not a buffer overflow in the traditional sense: we don't
overflow any *kernel* buffers, but we do mis-count the amount of data we
copy back to user space for the SYSLOG_ACTION_READ_ALL case.
In particular, if the user buffer is too small to hold everything, and
*if* there is a continuation line at just the right place, we can end up
giving the user more data than he asked for.
The reason is that we first count up the number of bytes all the log
records contains, then we walk the records again until we've skipped the
records at the beginning that won't fit, and then we walk the rest of
the records and copy them to the user space buffer.
And in between that "skip the initial records that won't fit" and the
"copy the records that *will* fit to user space", we reset the 'prev'
variable that contained the record information for the last record not
copied. That meant that when we started copying to user space, we now
had a different character count than what we had originally calculated
in the first record walk-through.
The fix is to simply not clear the 'prev' flags value (in both cases
where we had the same logic: syslog_print_all and kmsg_dump_get_buffer:
the latter is used for pstore-like dumping)
Reported-and-tested-by: Debabrata Banerjee <dbanerje@akamai.com>
Acked-by: Kay Sievers <kay@vrfy.org>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
An earlier newline was missing and current print is from different task.
In this scenario flush the continuation line and store this line
seperatly.
This patch fix the below scenario of timestamp interleaving,
[ 28.154370 ] read_word_reg : reg[0x 3], reg[0x 4] data [0x 642]
[ 28.155428 ] uart disconnect
[ 31.947341 ] dvfs[cpufreq.c<275>]:plug-in cpu<1> done
[ 28.155445 ] UART detached : send switch state 201
[ 32.014112 ] read_reg : reg[0x 3] data[0x21]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: simplify and condense the code]
Signed-off-by: Arun KS <getarunks@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Arun KS <arun.ks@broadcom.com>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Switch to memblock interfaces for early memory allocator instead of
bootmem allocator. No functional change in beahvior than what it is in
current code from bootmem users points of view.
Archs already converted to NO_BOOTMEM now directly use memblock
interfaces instead of bootmem wrappers build on top of memblock. And
the archs which still uses bootmem, these new apis just fallback to
exiting bootmem APIs.
Signed-off-by: Grygorii Strashko <grygorii.strashko@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar@ti.com>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Paul Walmsley <paul@pwsan.com>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
In one of those comments a typo was fixed, too.
Signed-off-by: Dirk Gouders <dirk@gouders.net>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
boot_delay does not work for earlyprintk because the kernel cmdline
parsing is late.
Change to use early_param so early kernel messages can also be delayed.
Signed-off-by: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This reports the names of consoles as they're being disabled to help
identify which is which during cut-over. Helps answer the question
"which boot console actually got activated?" once the regular console is
running, mostly when debugging boot console failures.
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Here's the big tty/serial driver pull request for 3.12-rc1.
Lots of n_tty reworks to resolve some very long-standing issues, removing the
3-4 different locks that were taken for every character. This code has been
beaten on for a long time in linux-next with no reported regressions.
Other than that, a range of serial and tty driver updates and revisions. Full
details in the shortlog.
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Merge tag 'tty-3.12-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty
Pull tty/serial driver patches from Greg KH:
"Here's the big tty/serial driver pull request for 3.12-rc1.
Lots of n_tty reworks to resolve some very long-standing issues,
removing the 3-4 different locks that were taken for every character.
This code has been beaten on for a long time in linux-next with no
reported regressions.
Other than that, a range of serial and tty driver updates and
revisions. Full details in the shortlog"
* tag 'tty-3.12-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty: (226 commits)
hvc_xen: Remove unnecessary __GFP_ZERO from kzalloc
serial: imx: initialize the local variable
tty: ar933x_uart: add device tree support and binding documentation
tty: ar933x_uart: allow to build the driver as a module
ARM: dts: msm: Update uartdm compatible strings
devicetree: serial: Document msm_serial bindings
serial: unify serial bindings into a single dir
serial: fsl-imx-uart: Cleanup duplicate device tree binding
tty: ar933x_uart: use config_enabled() macro to clean up ifdefs
tty: ar933x_uart: remove superfluous assignment of ar933x_uart_driver.nr
tty: ar933x_uart: use the clk API to get the uart clock
tty: serial: cpm_uart: Adding proper request of GPIO used by cpm_uart driver
serial: sirf: fix the amount of serial ports
serial: sirf: define macro for some magic numbers of USP
serial: icom: move array overflow checks earlier
TTY: amiserial, remove unnecessary platform_set_drvdata()
serial: st-asc: remove unnecessary platform_set_drvdata()
msm_serial: Send more than 1 character on the console w/ UARTDM
msm_serial: Add support for non-GSBI UARTDM devices
msm_serial: Switch clock consumer strings and simplify code
...
Some of my configs I test with have CONFIG_A11Y_BRAILLE_CONSOLE set.
When I started testing against v3.11-rc4 my console went bonkers. Using
ktest to bisect the issue, it came down to:
commit bbeddf52a "printk: move braille console support into separate
braille.[ch] files"
Looking into the patch I found the problem. It's with the return of
braille_register_console(). As anything other than NULL is considered a
failure.
But for those of us that have CONFIG_A11Y_BRAILLE_CONSOLE set but do not
define a "brl" or "brl=" on the command line, we still may want a
console that those with sight can still use.
Return NULL (success) if "brl" or "brl=" is not on the console line.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Acked-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This patch guards the console_drivers list to be corrupted. The
for_each_console() macro insist on a strictly forward list ended by NULL:
con0->next->con1->next->NULL
Without this patch it may happen easily to destroy this list for example by
adding 'earlyprintk' twice, especially on embedded devices where the early
console is often a single static instance. This will result in the following
list:
con0->next->con0
This in turn will result in an endless loop in console_unlock() later on by
printing the first __log_buf line endlessly.
Signed-off-by: Andreas Bießmann <andreas@biessmann.de>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay@vrfy.org>
Cc: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Rename the struct to enable moving portions of
printk.c to separate files.
The rename changes output of /proc/vmcoreinfo.
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>
Cc: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Make the code a bit more compact by always using a pointer for the active
console_cmdline.
Move overly indented code to correct indent level.
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>
Cc: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Create files with prototypes and static inlines for braille support. Make
braille_console functions return 1 on success.
Corrected CONFIG_A11Y_BRAILLE_CONSOLE=n _braille_console_setup
return value to NULL.
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Reviewed-by: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>
Cc: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Add an include file for the console_cmdline struct so that the braille
console driver can be separated.
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>
Cc: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Make it easier to break up printk into bite-sized chunks.
Remove printk path/filename from comment.
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>
Cc: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
