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reiserfs: add locking around error buffer 

The formatting of the error buffer is race prone. It uses static buffers
for both formatting and output. While overwriting the error buffer
can product garbled output, overwriting the format buffer with incompatible
% directives can cause crashes.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Jeff Mahoney 2009-03-30 14:02:24 -04:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent fd7cb031ef
commit 78b6513d28
1 changed files with 4 additions and 1 deletions
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@ -184,7 +184,7 @@ static char *is_there_reiserfs_struct(char *fmt, int *what)
printk ("bad key %lu %lu %lu %lu", key->k_dir_id, key->k_objectid,
key->k_offset, key->k_uniqueness);
*/
static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(error_lock);
static void prepare_error_buf(const char *fmt, va_list args)
{
char *fmt1 = fmt_buf;
@ -192,6 +192,8 @@ static void prepare_error_buf(const char *fmt, va_list args)
char *p = error_buf;
int what;
spin_lock(&error_lock);
strcpy(fmt1, fmt);
while ((k = is_there_reiserfs_struct(fmt1, &what)) != NULL) {
@ -237,6 +239,7 @@ static void prepare_error_buf(const char *fmt, va_list args)
fmt1 = k + 2;
}
vsprintf(p, fmt1, args);
spin_unlock(&error_lock);
}