Re: [RFC PATCH v3] core_pattern: fix long parameters was truncatedby core_pattern handler

From: Xiaotian Feng
Date: Fri Aug 20 2010 - 05:36:34 EST


On 08/20/2010 05:22 PM, Xiaotian Feng wrote:
We met a parameter truncated issue, consider following:
echo "|/root/core_pattern_pipe_test %p /usr/libexec/blah-blah-blah \
%s %c %p %u %g 11 12345678901234567890123456789012345678 %t"> \
/proc/sys/kernel/core_pattern

This is okay because the strings is less than CORENAME_MAX_SIZE.
"cat /proc/sys/kernel/core_pattern" shows the whole string. but
after we run core_pattern_pipe_test in man page, we found last
parameter was truncated like below:
argc[10]=<12807486>

The root cause is core_pattern allows % specifiers, which need to be
replaced during parse time, but the replace may expand the strings
to larger than CORENAME_MAX_SIZE. So if the last parameter is %
specifiers, the replace code is using snprintf(out_ptr, out_end - out_ptr, ...),
this will write out of corename array.

Changes since v2:
Introduced generic function cn_printf and make format_corename remember the time
has been expanded.

Changes since v1:
This patch allocates corename at runtime, if the replace doesn't have enough
memory, expand the corename dynamically.

Signed-off-by: Xiaotian Feng<dfeng@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Alexander Viro<viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Andrew Morton<akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov<oleg@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro<kosaki.motohiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Neil Horman<nhorman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Roland McGrath<roland@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/exec.c | 181 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------------
1 files changed, 121 insertions(+), 60 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/exec.c b/fs/exec.c
index 2d94552..e2fe568 100644
--- a/fs/exec.c
+++ b/fs/exec.c
@@ -65,6 +65,12 @@ char core_pattern[CORENAME_MAX_SIZE] = "core";
unsigned int core_pipe_limit;
int suid_dumpable = 0;

+struct core_name {
+ char *corename;
+ int used, size;
+};
+static atomic_t call_count = ATOMIC_INIT(1);
+
/* The maximal length of core_pattern is also specified in sysctl.c */

static LIST_HEAD(formats);
@@ -1440,106 +1446,147 @@ void set_binfmt(struct linux_binfmt *new)

EXPORT_SYMBOL(set_binfmt);

+static int expand_corename(struct core_name *cn)
+{
+ char *old_corename = cn->corename;
+
+ cn->size = CORENAME_MAX_SIZE * atomic_inc_return(&call_count);
+ cn->corename = krealloc(old_corename, cn->size, GFP_KERNEL);
+
+ if (!cn->corename) {
+ kfree(old_corename);
+ return -ENOMEM;
+ }
+
+ return 0;
+}
+
+static int cn_printf(struct core_name *cn, const char *fmt, ...)
+{
+ char *cur;
+ int need;
+ int ret;
+ va_list arg;
+
+ cur = cn->corename + cn->used;
+
+ va_start(arg, fmt);
+ need = vsnprintf(NULL, 0, fmt, arg);
+ va_end(arg);
+
+ if (likely(need< cn->size - cn->used))
+ goto out_printf;
+
+ ret = expand_corename(cn);
+ if (ret)
+ goto expand_fail;
+
+out_printf:
+ va_start(arg, fmt);
+ vsnprintf(cur, need + 1, fmt, arg);
+ va_end(arg);
+ cn->used += need;
+ return 0;
+
+expand_fail:
+ va_end(arg);

oops, this line should be removed, please ignore this mail, I'll send an updated patch.

Thanks
Xiaotian
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