Re: BUG printk with not null-terminated string in driver/drivers/acpi/osl.c

From: Björn Steinbrink
Date: Tue Dec 22 2009 - 12:13:12 EST


On 2009.12.22 18:46:02 +0000, Alexander Strakh wrote:
> In driver drivers/acpi/osl.c in function acpi_osi_setup:
> 1. If in line 555 *osi_additional_string == 0 then we goto line 1039

I guess that's meant to be line 1038?

> 2. In line 1039: if length of str > OSI_STRING_LENGTH_MAX then
> osi_additional_string not have 0 at the end.
> 3. In line 1040 printk called with not null-terminated string.

That printk uses str, not osi_additional_string.

> diff --git a/./0000/drivers/acpi/osl.c b/./0001/drivers/acpi/osl.c
> index 02e8464..9c759f8 100644
> --- a/./0000/drivers/acpi/osl.c
> +++ b/./0001/drivers/acpi/osl.c
> @@ -1037,6 +1037,7 @@ int __init acpi_osi_setup(char *str)
> acpi_cmdline_osi_linux(1); /* enable */
> } else if (*osi_additional_string == '\0') {
> strncpy(osi_additional_string, str, OSI_STRING_LENGTH_MAX);
> + osi_additional_string[OSI_STRING_LENGTH_MAX - 1] = 0;

That will break the test in acpi_os_validate_interface for strings
longer than OSI_STRING_LENGTH_MAX (incl. the NUL byte). And that's the
only other user of osi_additional_string and doesn't require the
terminating NUL byte. So this shouldn't be needed.

Björn
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