[U-Boot] [PATCH] [x86] [zboot] Change printf to puts to avoid a buffer overflow
Gabe Black
gabeblack at chromium.org
Tue Nov 8 10:21:41 CET 2011
printf as currently implemented in u-boot has a problem where it can
overflow an internal buffer if it prints an expanded string that's too
long. Our command lines are long enough to cause this problem. A fix
should be coming, but in the mean time this change replaces a problematic
printf with a few calls to puts that have the same effect. This may perform
slightly better because it should avoid a copy and scanning for format
specifiers. The amount of time it actually takes up is very tiny relative
to everything else so in practice that's probably irrelevant.
Signed-off-by: Gabe Black <gabeblack at chromium.org>
---
arch/x86/lib/zimage.c | 4 +++-
1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/lib/zimage.c b/arch/x86/lib/zimage.c
index d2dd6fd..a48ae6c 100644
--- a/arch/x86/lib/zimage.c
+++ b/arch/x86/lib/zimage.c
@@ -78,7 +78,9 @@ static void build_command_line(char *command_line, int auto_boot)
}
- printf("Kernel command line: \"%s\"\n", command_line);
+ puts("Kernel command line: \"");
+ puts(command_line);
+ puts("\"\n");
}
void *load_zimage(char *image, unsigned long kernel_size,
--
1.7.3.1
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