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Masahiro Yamada f531c1b5de modpost: fix potential mmap'ed file overrun in get_src_version()
I do not know how reliably this function works, but it looks dangerous
to me.

    strchr(sources, '\n');

... continues searching until it finds '\n' or it reaches the '\0'
terminator. In other words, 'sources' should be a null-terminated
string.

However, grab_file() just mmaps a file, so 'sources' is not terminated
with null byte. If the file does not contain '\n' at all, strchr() will
go beyond the mmap'ed memory.

Use read_text_file(), which loads the file content into a malloc'ed
buffer, appending null byte.

Here we are interested only in the first line of *.mod files. Use
get_line() helper to get the first line.

This also makes missing *.mod file a fatal error.

Commit 4be40e2223 ("kbuild: do not emit src version warning for
non-modules") ignored missing *.mod files.

I do not fully understand what that commit addressed, but commit
91341d4b2c ("kbuild: introduce new option to enhance section mismatch
analysis") introduced partial section checks by using modpost. built-in.o
was parsed by modpost. Even modules had a problem because *.mod files
were created after the modpost check.

Commit b7dca6dd1e ("kbuild: create *.mod with full directory path and
remove MODVERDIR") stopped doing that. Now that modpost is only invoked
after the directory descend, *.mod files should always exist at the
modpost stage.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
2020-06-06 23:38:13 +09:00
arch kbuild: remove {CLEAN,MRPROPER,DISTCLEAN}_DIRS 2020-05-26 00:03:15 +09:00
block bdi: use bdi_dev_name() to get device name 2020-05-09 16:07:39 -06:00
certs .gitignore: add SPDX License Identifier 2020-03-25 11:50:48 +01:00
crypto gcc-10: avoid shadowing standard library 'free()' in crypto 2020-05-09 15:58:04 -07:00
Documentation modpost: generate vmlinux.symvers and reuse it for the second modpost 2020-06-06 23:38:12 +09:00
drivers IOMMU Fixes for Linux v5.7-rc4 2020-05-10 11:26:23 -07:00
fs block-5.7-2020-05-09 2020-05-10 11:16:07 -07:00
include kbuild: ensure full rebuild when the compiler is updated 2020-05-12 13:28:33 +09:00
init bpfilter: check if $(CC) can link static libc in Kconfig 2020-05-17 18:52:01 +09:00
ipc ipc/mqueue.c: change __do_notify() to bypass check_kill_permission() 2020-05-07 19:27:20 -07:00
kernel Stop the ad-hoc games with -Wno-maybe-initialized 2020-05-09 13:57:10 -07:00
lib Makefile: support compressed debug info 2020-05-29 03:08:49 +09:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Rename other to deprecated 2019-05-03 06:34:32 -06:00
mm block-5.7-2020-05-09 2020-05-10 11:16:07 -07:00
net bpfilter: document build requirements for bpfilter_umh 2020-05-26 00:03:16 +09:00
samples samples: watchdog: use 'userprogs' syntax 2020-05-17 18:52:02 +09:00
scripts modpost: fix potential mmap'ed file overrun in get_src_version() 2020-06-06 23:38:13 +09:00
security selinux/stable-5.7 PR 20200430 2020-04-30 16:35:45 -07:00
sound sound fixes for 5.7-rc4 2020-05-01 11:05:28 -07:00
tools A set of fixes for x86: 2020-05-10 11:59:53 -07:00
usr bpfilter: match bit size of bpfilter_umh to that of the kernel 2020-05-17 18:52:01 +09:00
virt KVM: arm64: Fix 32bit PC wrap-around 2020-05-01 09:51:08 +01:00
.clang-format clang-format: Update with the latest for_each macro list 2020-04-18 13:49:33 +02:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
.get_maintainer.ignore Opt out of scripts/get_maintainer.pl 2019-05-16 10:53:40 -07:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: use 'dts' diff driver for dts files 2019-12-04 19:44:11 -08:00
.gitignore modpost: generate vmlinux.symvers and reuse it for the second modpost 2020-06-06 23:38:12 +09:00
.mailmap mailmap: Add Sedat Dilek (replacement for expired email address) 2020-04-11 09:28:34 -07:00
COPYING COPYING: state that all contributions really are covered by this file 2020-02-10 13:32:20 -08:00
CREDITS MAINTAINERS: Hand MIPS over to Thomas 2020-02-24 22:43:18 -08:00
Kbuild kbuild: rename hostprogs-y/always to hostprogs/always-y 2020-02-04 01:53:07 +09:00
Kconfig kbuild: ensure full rebuild when the compiler is updated 2020-05-12 13:28:33 +09:00
MAINTAINERS Fixes for an endianness handling bug that prevented mounts on 2020-05-08 10:27:00 -07:00
Makefile modpost: show warning if any of symbol dump files is missing 2020-06-06 23:38:12 +09:00
README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.