[U-Boot] [PATCH v4] bootm: Avoid 256-byte overflow in fixup_silent_linux()

Doug Anderson dianders at chromium.org
Tue Jan 17 20:37:41 CET 2012


This makes fixup_silent_linux() use malloc() to allocate its
working space, meaning that our maximum kernel command line
should only be limited by malloc().  Previously it was silently
overflowing the stack.

Note that nothing about this change increases the kernel's maximum
command line length.  If you have a command line that is >256
bytes it's up to you to make sure that kernel can handle it.

Signed-off-by: Doug Anderson <dianders at chromium.org>
---
Changes in v2:
- Tried to trim down to just the minimum changes needed with
no extra helper code.

Changes in v3:
- Took Mike Frysinger's suggestion of removing strdup()

Changes in v4:
- Added in const

 common/cmd_bootm.c |   41 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------
 1 files changed, 29 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

diff --git a/common/cmd_bootm.c b/common/cmd_bootm.c
index d5745b1..0a5ac81 100644
--- a/common/cmd_bootm.c
+++ b/common/cmd_bootm.c
@@ -1229,9 +1229,14 @@ U_BOOT_CMD(
 /* helper routines */
 /*******************************************************************/
 #ifdef CONFIG_SILENT_CONSOLE
+
+#define CONSOLE_ARG     "console="
+#define CONSOLE_ARG_LEN (sizeof(CONSOLE_ARG) - 1)
+
 static void fixup_silent_linux(void)
 {
-	char buf[256], *start, *end;
+	char *buf;
+	const char *env_val;
 	char *cmdline = getenv("bootargs");
 
 	/* Only fix cmdline when requested */
@@ -1239,25 +1244,37 @@ static void fixup_silent_linux(void)
 		return;
 
 	debug("before silent fix-up: %s\n", cmdline);
-	if (cmdline) {
-		start = strstr(cmdline, "console=");
+	if (cmdline && (cmdline[0] != '\0')) {
+		char *start = strstr(cmdline, CONSOLE_ARG);
+
+		/* Allocate space for maximum possible new command line */
+		buf = malloc(strlen(cmdline) + 1 + CONSOLE_ARG_LEN + 1);
+		if (!buf) {
+			debug("%s: out of memory\n", __func__);
+			return;
+		}
+
 		if (start) {
-			end = strchr(start, ' ');
-			strncpy(buf, cmdline, (start - cmdline + 8));
+			char *end = strchr(start, ' ');
+			int num_start_bytes = start - cmdline + CONSOLE_ARG_LEN;
+
+			strncpy(buf, cmdline, num_start_bytes);
 			if (end)
-				strcpy(buf + (start - cmdline + 8), end);
+				strcpy(buf + num_start_bytes, end);
 			else
-				buf[start - cmdline + 8] = '\0';
+				buf[num_start_bytes] = '\0';
 		} else {
-			strcpy(buf, cmdline);
-			strcat(buf, " console=");
+			sprintf(buf, "%s %s", cmdline, CONSOLE_ARG);
 		}
+		env_val = buf;
 	} else {
-		strcpy(buf, "console=");
+		buf = NULL;
+		env_val = CONSOLE_ARG;
 	}
 
-	setenv("bootargs", buf);
-	debug("after silent fix-up: %s\n", buf);
+	setenv("bootargs", env_val);
+	debug("after silent fix-up: %s\n", env_val);
+	free(buf);
 }
 #endif /* CONFIG_SILENT_CONSOLE */
 
-- 
1.7.7.3



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