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From 401e037e5e9527134c594b8923342a69ff38b7cb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Arthur Zou <zzou@redhat.com>
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2014 13:05:18 +0800
Subject: [PATCH] vmcore-dmesg stack smashing happend in extreme case

Description
in dump_dmesg_structured() the out_buf size is 4096, and if the
length is less than 4080( 4096-16 ) it won't really write out.
Normally, after writing one or four chars to the out_buf, it will
check the length of out_buf. But in extreme cases, 19 chars was
written to the out_buf before checking the length. This may cause
the stack corruption. If the length was 4079 (won't realy write out),
and then write 19 chars to it. the out_buf will overflow.

Solution
Change 16 to 64 thus can make sure that always have 64bytes before
moving to next records. why using 64 is that a long long int can take
20 bytes. so the length of timestamp can be 44 ('[','.',']',' ') in
extreme case.

Signed-off-by: Arthur Zou <zzou@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
---
 vmcore-dmesg/vmcore-dmesg.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/vmcore-dmesg/vmcore-dmesg.c b/vmcore-dmesg/vmcore-dmesg.c
index 0345660..e15cd91 100644
--- a/vmcore-dmesg/vmcore-dmesg.c
+++ b/vmcore-dmesg/vmcore-dmesg.c
@@ -674,7 +674,7 @@ static void dump_dmesg_structured(int fd)
 			else
 				out_buf[len++] = c;
 
-			if (len >= OUT_BUF_SIZE - 16) {
+			if (len >= OUT_BUF_SIZE - 64) {
 				write_to_stdout(out_buf, len);
 				len = 0;
 			}
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