Re: [PATCH] vsprintf: Do not break early boot with probing addresses

From: christophe leroy
Date: Fri May 10 2019 - 13:37:03 EST




Le 10/05/2019 Ã 18:24, Steven Rostedt a ÃcritÂ:
On Fri, 10 May 2019 10:42:13 +0200
Petr Mladek <pmladek@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

static const char *check_pointer_msg(const void *ptr)
{
- char byte;
-
if (!ptr)
return "(null)";
- if (probe_kernel_address(ptr, byte))
+ if ((unsigned long)ptr < PAGE_SIZE || IS_ERR_VALUE(ptr))
return "(efault)";


< PAGE_SIZE ?

do you mean: < TASK_SIZE ?

I guess not.

Usually, < PAGE_SIZE means NULL pointer dereference (via the member of a struct)

Christophe

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