linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] printk: fix possible reuse of va

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Date:   Fri, 11 May 2018 20:27:18 +0900
From:   Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@...il.com>
To:     Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@...ove.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Cc:     sergey.senozhatsky.work@...il.com, pmladek@...e.com,
        dvyukov@...gle.com, sergey.senozhatsky@...il.com,
        syzkaller@...glegroups.com, rostedt@...dmis.org,
        fengguang.wu@...el.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        peterz@...radead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] printk: fix possible reuse of va_list variable

On (05/11/18 20:02), Tetsuo Handa wrote:
> I noticed that there is a possibility that printk_safe_log_store() causes
> kernel oops because "args" parameter is passed to vsnprintf() again when
> atomic_cmpxchg() detected that we raced. Fix this by using va_copy().
> 
> Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@...ove.SAKURA.ne.jp>
> Fixes: 42a0bb3f71383b45 ("printk/nmi: generic solution for safe printk in NMI")
> Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@...il.com>
> Cc: Petr Mladek <pmladek@...e.com>
> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>

Reviewed-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@...il.com>

	-ss