Re: [PATCH v2 2/5] scsi: BusLogic: Avoid unbounded `vsprintf' use

From: Khalid Aziz
Date: Thu Apr 22 2021 - 13:30:39 EST


On 4/20/21 12:01 PM, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
> Existing `blogic_msg' invocations do not appear to overrun its internal
> buffer of a fixed length of 100, which would cause stack corruption, but
> it's easy to miss with possible further updates and a fix is cheap in
> performance terms, so limit the output produced into the buffer by using
> `vscnprintf' rather than `vsprintf'.
>
> Signed-off-by: Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> Changes from v1:
>
> - use `vscnprintf' instead of `vsnprintf' for the correct character count.
> ---
> drivers/scsi/BusLogic.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> linux-buslogic-vscnprintf.diff
> Index: linux-macro-ide/drivers/scsi/BusLogic.c
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-macro-ide.orig/drivers/scsi/BusLogic.c
> +++ linux-macro-ide/drivers/scsi/BusLogic.c
> @@ -3588,7 +3588,7 @@ static void blogic_msg(enum blogic_msgle
> int len = 0;
>
> va_start(args, adapter);
> - len = vsprintf(buf, fmt, args);
> + len = vscnprintf(buf, sizeof(buf), fmt, args);
> va_end(args);
> if (msglevel == BLOGIC_ANNOUNCE_LEVEL) {
> static int msglines = 0;
>

Acked-by: Khalid Aziz <khalid@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>