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printk: fix possible printk overrun
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printk recursion detection prepends message to printk_buf and offsets
printk_buf when actual message is printed but it forgets to trim buffer
length accordingly. This can result in overrun in extreme cases. Fix it.

[ mingo@elte.hu:

  bug was introduced by me via:

   commit 32a7600
   Author: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
   Date:   Fri Jan 25 21:07:58 2008 +0100

       printk: make printk more robust by not allowing recursion
]

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Tejun Heo authored and Linus Torvalds committed Feb 26, 2008
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2 changes: 1 addition & 1 deletion kernel/printk.c
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Expand Up @@ -666,7 +666,7 @@ asmlinkage int vprintk(const char *fmt, va_list args)
}
/* Emit the output into the temporary buffer */
printed_len += vscnprintf(printk_buf + printed_len,
sizeof(printk_buf), fmt, args);
sizeof(printk_buf) - printed_len, fmt, args);

/*
* Copy the output into log_buf. If the caller didn't provide
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