On Tue 2018-11-13 14:23:17, Steven Rostedt wrote: > On Tue, 13 Nov 2018 13:58:18 -0500 > Qian Cai <c...@gmx.us> wrote: > > > > Care to print the len and name parameters before this line? > > len = 60612; name = > > How big are pages on arm64? Because we shouldn't get to this path if > the string is bigger than PAGE_SIZE. But I know that on PPC64, > PAGE_SIZE can be 64K, and 60612 is less than that. Thus, if we get > there, the test is against signed int:16 (16 bit signed integer) that > can go up to most 32768. If the string size is bigger than that, you > would get this error. > > I would just say to ignore it.
I tend to agree. > The only thing that can happen if > someone does this is to trigger the warning. Unless if it is considered > a form of DOS, where userspace just bombards the console by triggering > this waring. We are actually on the safe side because it is WARN_ONCE(). > But I don't see a problem with the actual design. There's > no reason we should be processing string variables bigger than 32768 in > vsprintf. It is not even needed in this case. The string is limited also by MODULE_NAME_LEN. Best Regards, Petr
