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| author | Kees Cook <kees.cook@canonical.com> | 2011-03-22 16:34:22 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2011-03-22 17:44:12 -0700 |
| commit | 9f36e2c448007b54851e7e4fa48da97d1477a175 (patch) | |
| tree | 2fa0ad88c75184dc79b28c287c853e97f779bf1f /lib | |
| parent | fe3d8ad31cf51b062bbb8a9609eeb1d0c41a7f30 (diff) | |
printk: use %pK for /proc/kallsyms and /proc/modules
In an effort to reduce kernel address leaks that might be used to help
target kernel privilege escalation exploits, this patch uses %pK when
displaying addresses in /proc/kallsyms, /proc/modules, and
/sys/module/*/sections/*.
Note that this changes %x to %p, so some legitimately 0 values in
/proc/kallsyms would have changed from 00000000 to "(null)". To avoid
this, "(null)" is not used when using the "K" format. Anything that was
already successfully parsing "(null)" in addition to full hex digits
should have no problem with this change. (Thanks to Joe Perches for the
suggestion.) Due to the %x to %p, "void *" casts are needed since these
addresses are already "unsigned long" everywhere internally, due to their
starting life as ELF section offsets.
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <kees.cook@canonical.com>
Cc: Eugene Teo <eugene@redhat.com>
Cc: Dan Rosenberg <drosenberg@vsecurity.com>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'lib')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/vsprintf.c | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/lib/vsprintf.c b/lib/vsprintf.c index 070d134eef7..ac444ff0165 100644 --- a/lib/vsprintf.c +++ b/lib/vsprintf.c @@ -991,7 +991,7 @@ static noinline_for_stack char *pointer(const char *fmt, char *buf, char *end, void *ptr, struct printf_spec spec) { - if (!ptr) { + if (!ptr && *fmt != 'K') { /* * Print (null) with the same width as a pointer so it makes * tabular output look nice. |