From: Miao Xie I found that there is a buffer overflow problem in the following code. Version: 2.6.24-rc2, File: kernel/time/clocksource.c:417-432 -------------------------------------------------------------------- static ssize_t sysfs_show_available_clocksources(struct sys_device *dev, char *buf) { struct clocksource *src; char *curr = buf; spin_lock_irq(&clocksource_lock); list_for_each_entry(src, &clocksource_list, list) { curr += sprintf(curr, "%s ", src->name); } spin_unlock_irq(&clocksource_lock); curr += sprintf(curr, "\n"); return curr - buf; } ----------------------------------------------------------------------- sysfs_show_current_clocksources() also has the same problem though in practice the size of current clocksource's name won't exceed PAGE_SIZE. I fix the bug by using snprintf according to the specification of the kernel (Version:2.6.24-rc2,File:Documentation/filesystems/sysfs.txt) Fix sysfs_show_available_clocksources() and sysfs_show_current_clocksources() buffer overflow problem with snprintf(). Signed-off-by: Miao Xie Cc: WANG Cong Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: john stultz Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- kernel/time/clocksource.c | 19 ++++++++++--------- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) diff -puN kernel/time/clocksource.c~time-fix-sysfs_show_availablecurrent_clocksources-buffer-overflow-problem kernel/time/clocksource.c --- a/kernel/time/clocksource.c~time-fix-sysfs_show_availablecurrent_clocksources-buffer-overflow-problem +++ a/kernel/time/clocksource.c @@ -342,15 +342,13 @@ void clocksource_change_rating(struct cl static ssize_t sysfs_show_current_clocksources(struct sys_device *dev, char *buf) { - char *curr = buf; + ssize_t count = 0; spin_lock_irq(&clocksource_lock); - curr += sprintf(curr, "%s ", curr_clocksource->name); + count = snprintf(buf, PAGE_SIZE, "%s\n", curr_clocksource->name); spin_unlock_irq(&clocksource_lock); - curr += sprintf(curr, "\n"); - - return curr - buf; + return count; } /** @@ -418,17 +416,20 @@ static ssize_t sysfs_show_available_clocksources(struct sys_device *dev, char *buf) { struct clocksource *src; - char *curr = buf; + ssize_t count = 0; spin_lock_irq(&clocksource_lock); list_for_each_entry(src, &clocksource_list, list) { - curr += sprintf(curr, "%s ", src->name); + count += snprintf(buf + count, + max((ssize_t)PAGE_SIZE - count, (ssize_t)0), + "%s ", src->name); } spin_unlock_irq(&clocksource_lock); - curr += sprintf(curr, "\n"); + count += snprintf(buf + count, + max((ssize_t)PAGE_SIZE - count, (ssize_t)0), "\n"); - return curr - buf; + return count; } /* _