linux-kernel - [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.10 3/7] um: Don't use vfprintf() for os

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Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2024 09:30:44 -0500
From: Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>
To: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	stable@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Benjamin Berg <benjamin@...solutions.net>,
	Richard Weinberger <richard@....at>,
	Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>,
	anton.ivanov@...bridgegreys.com,
	johannes@...solutions.net,
	linux-um@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.10 3/7] um: Don't use vfprintf() for os_info()

From: Benjamin Berg <benjamin@...solutions.net>

[ Upstream commit 236f9fe39b02c15fa5530b53e9cca48354394389 ]

The threads allocated inside the kernel have only a single page of
stack. Unfortunately, the vfprintf function in standard glibc may use
too much stack-space, overflowing it.

To make os_info safe to be used by helper threads, use the kernel
vscnprintf function into a smallish buffer and write out the information
to stderr.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Berg <benjamin@...solutions.net>
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@....at>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>
---
 arch/um/os-Linux/util.c | 19 +++++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/um/os-Linux/util.c b/arch/um/os-Linux/util.c
index 07327425d06e..56d9589e1cd1 100644
--- a/arch/um/os-Linux/util.c
+++ b/arch/um/os-Linux/util.c
@@ -166,23 +166,38 @@ __uml_setup("quiet", quiet_cmd_param,
 "quiet\n"
 "    Turns off information messages during boot.\n\n");
 
+/*
+ * The os_info/os_warn functions will be called by helper threads. These
+ * have a very limited stack size and using the libc formatting functions
+ * may overflow the stack.
+ * So pull in the kernel vscnprintf and use that instead with a fixed
+ * on-stack buffer.
+ */
+int vscnprintf(char *buf, size_t size, const char *fmt, va_list args);
+
 void os_info(const char *fmt, ...)
 {
+	char buf[256];
 	va_list list;
+	int len;
 
 	if (quiet_info)
 		return;
 
 	va_start(list, fmt);
-	vfprintf(stderr, fmt, list);
+	len = vscnprintf(buf, sizeof(buf), fmt, list);
+	fwrite(buf, len, 1, stderr);
 	va_end(list);
 }
 
 void os_warn(const char *fmt, ...)
 {
+	char buf[256];
 	va_list list;
+	int len;
 
 	va_start(list, fmt);
-	vfprintf(stderr, fmt, list);
+	len = vscnprintf(buf, sizeof(buf), fmt, list);
+	fwrite(buf, len, 1, stderr);
 	va_end(list);
 }
-- 
2.43.0