[PATCH] kbuild: fix buffer overflow in modpost Jiri Benc <jbenc@suse.cz> reported that modpost would stop with SIGABRT if used with long filepaths. The error looked like: > Building modules, stage 2. > MODPOST > *** glibc detected *** scripts/mod/modpost: realloc(): invalid next size: +0x0809f588 *** > [...] Fix this by allocating at least the required memory + SZ bytes each time. Before we sometimes ended up allocating too little memory resuting in the glibc detected bug above. Based on patch originally submitted by: Jiri Benc <jbenc@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
diff --git a/scripts/mod/modpost.c b/scripts/mod/modpost.c index f70ff13..b8b2a56 100644 --- a/scripts/mod/modpost.c +++ b/scripts/mod/modpost.c
@@ -508,12 +508,7 @@ va_start(ap, fmt); len = vsnprintf(tmp, SZ, fmt, ap); - if (buf->size - buf->pos < len + 1) { - buf->size += 128; - buf->p = realloc(buf->p, buf->size); - } - strncpy(buf->p + buf->pos, tmp, len + 1); - buf->pos += len; + buf_write(buf, tmp, len); va_end(ap); } @@ -521,7 +516,7 @@ buf_write(struct buffer *buf, const char *s, int len) { if (buf->size - buf->pos < len) { - buf->size += len; + buf->size += len + SZ; buf->p = realloc(buf->p, buf->size); } strncpy(buf->p + buf->pos, s, len);