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Greg Pearson 38dfac843c vmcore: prevent PT_NOTE p_memsz overflow during header update 
Currently, update_note_header_size_elf64() and
update_note_header_size_elf32() will add the size of a PT_NOTE entry to
real_sz even if that causes real_sz to exceeds max_sz.  This patch
corrects the while loop logic in those routines to ensure that does not
happen and prints a warning if a PT_NOTE entry is dropped.  If zero
PT_NOTE entries are found or this condition is encountered because the
only entry was dropped, a warning is printed and an error is returned.

One possible negative side effect of exceeding the max_sz limit is an
allocation failure in merge_note_headers_elf64() or
merge_note_headers_elf32() which would produce console output such as
the following while booting the crash kernel.

  vmalloc: allocation failure: 14076997632 bytes
  swapper/0: page allocation failure: order:0, mode:0x80d2
  CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 3.10.0-gbp1 #7
  Call Trace:
    dump_stack+0x19/0x1b
    warn_alloc_failed+0xf0/0x160
    __vmalloc_node_range+0x19e/0x250
    vmalloc_user+0x4c/0x70
    merge_note_headers_elf64.constprop.9+0x116/0x24a
    vmcore_init+0x2d4/0x76c
    do_one_initcall+0xe2/0x190
    kernel_init_freeable+0x17c/0x207
    kernel_init+0xe/0x180
    ret_from_fork+0x7c/0xb0

  Kdump: vmcore not initialized

  kdump: dump target is /dev/sda4
  kdump: saving to /sysroot//var/crash/127.0.0.1-2014.01.28-13:58:52/
  kdump: saving vmcore-dmesg.txt
  Cannot open /proc/vmcore: No such file or directory
  kdump: saving vmcore-dmesg.txt failed
  kdump: saving vmcore
  kdump: saving vmcore failed

This type of failure has been seen on a four socket prototype system
with certain memory configurations.  Most PT_NOTE sections have a single
entry similar to:

  n_namesz = 0x5
  n_descsz = 0x150
  n_type   = 0x1

Occasionally, a second entry is encountered with very large n_namesz and
n_descsz sizes:

  n_namesz = 0x80000008
  n_descsz = 0x510ae163
  n_type   = 0x80000008

Not yet sure of the source of these extra entries, they seem bogus, but
they shouldn't cause crash dump to fail.

Signed-off-by: Greg Pearson <greg.pearson@hp.com>
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Cc: HATAYAMA Daisuke <d.hatayama@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Michael Holzheu <holzheu@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-02-10 16:01:40 -08:00
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array.c fs/proc/array.c: change do_task_stat() to use while_each_thread() 2014-01-23 16:37:02 -08:00
base.c proc: fix ->f_pos overflows in first_tid() 2014-01-23 16:37:01 -08:00
cmdline.c fs/proc: don't use module_init for non-modular core code 2014-01-23 16:37:02 -08:00
consoles.c fs/proc: don't use module_init for non-modular core code 2014-01-23 16:37:02 -08:00
cpuinfo.c fs/proc: don't use module_init for non-modular core code 2014-01-23 16:37:02 -08:00
devices.c fs/proc: don't use module_init for non-modular core code 2014-01-23 16:37:02 -08:00
fd.c proc: make proc_fd_permission() thread-friendly 2013-09-11 15:59:03 -07:00
fd.h proc: Move proc_fd() to fs/proc/fd.h 2013-05-01 17:29:39 -04:00
generic.c proc: set attributes of pde using accessor functions 2014-01-23 16:37:01 -08:00
inode.c procfs: also fix proc_reg_get_unmapped_area() for !MMU case 2013-12-12 18:19:26 -08:00
internal.h proc_fill_cache(): just make instantiate_t return int 2013-06-29 12:57:18 +04:00
interrupts.c fs/proc: don't use module_init for non-modular core code 2014-01-23 16:37:02 -08:00
Kconfig kcore: add Kconfig help text 2013-11-13 12:09:33 +09:00
kcore.c fs/proc: don't use module_init for non-modular core code 2014-01-23 16:37:02 -08:00
kmsg.c fs/proc: don't use module_init for non-modular core code 2014-01-23 16:37:02 -08:00
loadavg.c fs/proc: don't use module_init for non-modular core code 2014-01-23 16:37:02 -08:00
Makefile mm, vmalloc: move get_vmalloc_info() to vmalloc.c 2013-04-29 15:54:33 -07:00
meminfo.c fs/proc: don't use module_init for non-modular core code 2014-01-23 16:37:02 -08:00
namespaces.c consolidate simple ->d_delete() instances 2013-11-15 22:04:17 -05:00
nommu.c fs/proc: don't use module_init for non-modular core code 2014-01-23 16:37:02 -08:00
page.c fs/proc: don't use module_init for non-modular core code 2014-01-23 16:37:02 -08:00
proc_devtree.c fs/proc/proc_devtree.c: remove empty /proc/device-tree when no openfirmware exists. 2014-01-23 16:37:01 -08:00
proc_net.c [readdir] convert procfs 2013-06-29 12:56:32 +04:00
proc_sysctl.c Don't pass inode to ->d_hash() and ->d_compare() 2013-06-29 12:57:36 +04:00
proc_tty.c
root.c Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace 2013-09-07 14:35:32 -07:00
self.c new helper: kfree_put_link() 2013-10-24 23:34:49 -04:00
softirqs.c fs/proc: don't use module_init for non-modular core code 2014-01-23 16:37:02 -08:00
stat.c fs/proc: don't use module_init for non-modular core code 2014-01-23 16:37:02 -08:00
task_mmu.c seq_file: remove "%n" usage from seq_file users 2013-11-15 09:32:20 +09:00
task_nommu.c seq_file: remove "%n" usage from seq_file users 2013-11-15 09:32:20 +09:00
uptime.c fs/proc: don't use module_init for non-modular core code 2014-01-23 16:37:02 -08:00
version.c fs/proc: don't use module_init for non-modular core code 2014-01-23 16:37:02 -08:00
vmcore.c vmcore: prevent PT_NOTE p_memsz overflow during header update 2014-02-10 16:01:40 -08:00