[PATCH 0/2] md: Replace snprintf with scnprintf
Tim Gardner
tim.gardner at canonical.com
Tue Oct 18 15:13:16 UTC 2022
BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1993315
SRU Justification
While this patch was originally requested by the Microsoft Azure team, it seems
appropriate for the generic kernel as well.
[Impact]
Current code produces a warning as shown below when total characters
in the constituent block device names plus the slashes exceeds 200.
snprintf() returns the number of characters generated from the given
input, which could cause the expression “200 – len” to wrap around
to a large positive number. Fix this by using scnprintf() instead,
which returns the actual number of characters written into the buffer.
[ 1513.267938] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[ 1513.267943] WARNING: CPU: 15 PID: 37247 at <snip>/lib/vsprintf.c:2509 vsnprintf+0x2c8/0x510
[ 1513.267944] Modules linked in: <snip>
[ 1513.267969] CPU: 15 PID: 37247 Comm: mdadm Not tainted 5.4.0-1085-azure #90~18.04.1-Ubuntu
[ 1513.267969] Hardware name: Microsoft Corporation Virtual Machine/Virtual Machine, BIOS Hyper-V UEFI Release v4.1 05/09/2022
[ 1513.267971] RIP: 0010:vsnprintf+0x2c8/0x510
<-snip->
[ 1513.267982] Call Trace:
[ 1513.267986] snprintf+0x45/0x70
[ 1513.267990] ? disk_name+0x71/0xa0
[ 1513.267993] dump_zones+0x114/0x240 [raid0]
[ 1513.267996] ? _cond_resched+0x19/0x40
[ 1513.267998] raid0_run+0x19e/0x270 [raid0]
[ 1513.268000] md_run+0x5e0/0xc50
[ 1513.268003] ? security_capable+0x3f/0x60
[ 1513.268005] do_md_run+0x19/0x110
[ 1513.268006] md_ioctl+0x195e/0x1f90
[ 1513.268007] blkdev_ioctl+0x91f/0x9f0
[ 1513.268010] block_ioctl+0x3d/0x50
[ 1513.268012] do_vfs_ioctl+0xa9/0x640
[ 1513.268014] ? __fput+0x162/0x260
[ 1513.268016] ksys_ioctl+0x75/0x80
[ 1513.268017] __x64_sys_ioctl+0x1a/0x20
[ 1513.268019] do_syscall_64+0x5e/0x200
[ 1513.268021] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xa9
[Fix]
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next.git/commit/?id=1727fd5015d8f93474148f94e34cda5aa6ad4a43
[Where things could go wrong]
This seems unlikely to cause a regression. At worst the output could be garbled when
dumping zones.
[Other Info]
SF: #00346036
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