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coredump: fix va_list corruption

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A va_list needs to be copied in case it needs to be used twice.

Thanks to Hugh for debugging this issue, leading to various panics.

Tested:

  lpq84:~# echo "|/foobar12345 %h %h %h %h %h %h %h %h %h %h %h %h %h %h %h %h %h %h %h %h" >/proc/sys/kernel/core_pattern

'produce_core' is simply : main() { *(int *)0 = 1;}

  lpq84:~# ./produce_core
  Segmentation fault (core dumped)
  lpq84:~# dmesg | tail -1
  [  614.352947] Core dump to |/foobar12345 lpq84 lpq84 lpq84 lpq84 lpq84 lpq84 lpq84 lpq84 lpq84 lpq84 lpq84 lpq84 lpq84 lpq84 lpq84 lpq84 lpq84 lpq84 lpq84 (null) pipe failed

Notice the last argument was replaced by a NULL (we were lucky enough to
not crash, but do not try this on your production machine !)

After fix :

  lpq83:~# echo "|/foobar12345 %h %h %h %h %h %h %h %h %h %h %h %h %h %h %h %h %h %h %h %h" >/proc/sys/kernel/core_pattern
  lpq83:~# ./produce_core
  Segmentation fault
  lpq83:~# dmesg | tail -1
  [  740.800441] Core dump to |/foobar12345 lpq83 lpq83 lpq83 lpq83 lpq83 lpq83 lpq83 lpq83 lpq83 lpq83 lpq83 lpq83 lpq83 lpq83 lpq83 lpq83 lpq83 lpq83 lpq83 lpq83 pipe failed

Fixes: 5fe9d8ca21 ("coredump: cn_vprintf() has no reason to call vsnprintf() twice")
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Diagnosed-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 3.11+
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Eric Dumazet 2014-04-19 10:15:07 -07:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 6d4596905b
commit 404ca80eb5
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@ -73,10 +73,15 @@ static int expand_corename(struct core_name *cn, int size)
static int cn_vprintf(struct core_name *cn, const char *fmt, va_list arg)
{
int free, need;
va_list arg_copy;
again:
free = cn->size - cn->used;
need = vsnprintf(cn->corename + cn->used, free, fmt, arg);
va_copy(arg_copy, arg);
need = vsnprintf(cn->corename + cn->used, free, fmt, arg_copy);
va_end(arg_copy);
if (need < free) {
cn->used += need;
return 0;