linux-hardening - Re: Coverity: console_prepend_dropped(): Memory

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Date:   Wed, 18 Jan 2023 09:35:00 +0900
From:   Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@...omium.org>
To:     Petr Mladek <pmladek@...e.com>
Cc:     Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@...omium.org>,
        John Ogness <john.ogness@...utronix.de>,
        coverity-bot <keescook@...omium.org>,
        Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@...eddedor.com>,
        linux-next@...r.kernel.org, linux-hardening@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Coverity: console_prepend_dropped(): Memory - corruptions

On (23/01/17 12:20), Petr Mladek wrote:
> > Oh, yes, I agree that snprintf() should be replaced. Maybe we can go
> > even a bit furhter and replace all snprintf()-s in kernel/printk/*
> > (well, in a similar fashion, just in case). I'm just trying to understand
> > what type of assumptions does coverity make here and so far everything
> > looks rather peculiar.
> 
> Note that we sometimes need snprintf() to compute the needed size
> of the buffer. For example, vsnprintf() in vprintk_store() is
> correct.

Oh, right, that's an excellebt point.