Re: [PATCH] blktrace: fix a bug in blk_msg_write()

[Jens Axboe]

On Fri, Apr 03 2009, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> * Li Zefan <lizf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > This is another long-standing bug.
> >
> > ================
> >
> >
> >  (console 1)
> >  # echo -n 'a' > /sys/kernel/debug/block/sda/msg
> >  (console 2)
> >  # blktrace -d /dev/sda -a pc -o - | blkparse -i -
> >   8,0    0        0     0.000000000     0  m   N a??????????????????@??????
> >
> > We should terminate the msg buffer with '\0'.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >  kernel/trace/blktrace.c |    5 +++--
> >  1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/kernel/trace/blktrace.c b/kernel/trace/blktrace.c
> > index c0ef70d..2bf341f 100644
> > --- a/kernel/trace/blktrace.c
> > +++ b/kernel/trace/blktrace.c
> > @@ -327,10 +327,10 @@ static ssize_t blk_msg_write(struct file *filp, const char __user *buffer,
> >  	char *msg;
> >  	struct blk_trace *bt;
> >
> > -	if (count > BLK_TN_MAX_MSG)
> > +	if (count >= BLK_TN_MAX_MSG)
> >  		return -EINVAL;
> >
> > -	msg = kmalloc(count, GFP_KERNEL);
> > +	msg = kmalloc(count + 1, GFP_KERNEL);
> >  	if (msg == NULL)
> >  		return -ENOMEM;
> >
> > @@ -338,6 +338,7 @@ static ssize_t blk_msg_write(struct file *filp, const char __user *buffer,
> >  		kfree(msg);
> >  		return -EFAULT;
> >  	}
> > +	msg[count] = '\0';
> >
> >  	bt = filp->private_data;
> >  	__trace_note_message(bt, "%s", msg);
> 
> Nice fix!
> 
> Jens, do you ack this and should i add a Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxx>
> backporting tag?
> 
> This fix applies fine to v2.6.29 after:
> 
>    sed 's/kernel\/trace\/blktrace.c/block\/blktrace.c'

This is identical to the following patch from Carl Henrik Lunde, which
he just ported to -tip. It has existed before, as a patch to 2.6.29-git,
but was unfortunately dropped.

So is this a coincidence? If not, Carl Henrik Lunde should be credited.