Thread (8 messages) 8 messages, 3 authors, 2011-12-20

Re: [PATCH][RESEND] mm: Fix off-by-one bug in print_nodes_state

From: KOSAKI Motohiro <hidden>
Date: 2011-12-18 21:28:45
Also in: lkml

(12/18/11 6:58 AM), Ryota Ozaki wrote:
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
/sys/devices/system/node/{online,possible} involve a garbage byte
because print_nodes_state returns content size + 1. To fix the bug,
the patch changes the use of cpuset_sprintf_cpulist to follow the
use at other places, which is clearer and safer.

This bug was introduced since v2.6.24.

Signed-off-by: Ryota Ozaki<redacted>
---
  drivers/base/node.c |    8 +++-----
  1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/base/node.c b/drivers/base/node.c
index 5693ece..ef7c1f9 100644
--- a/drivers/base/node.c
+++ b/drivers/base/node.c
@@ -587,11 +587,9 @@ static ssize_t print_nodes_state(enum node_states state, char *buf)
  {
  	int n;

-	n = nodelist_scnprintf(buf, PAGE_SIZE, node_states[state]);
-	if (n>  0&&  PAGE_SIZE>  n + 1) {
-		*(buf + n++) = '\n';
-		*(buf + n++) = '\0';
-	}
+	n = nodelist_scnprintf(buf, PAGE_SIZE-2, node_states[state]);
PAGE_SIZE-1. This seems another off by one. buf[n++] = '¥n' mean
override old trailing '¥0' and buf[n] = '¥0' mean to append one byte.
Then totally, we append one byte.
+	buf[n++] = '\n';
+	buf[n] = '\0';
  	return n;
  }
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