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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com>
Cc: hannes@cmpxchg.org, mhocko@kernel.org, vdavydov.dev@gmail.com,
	cgroups@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: memcontrol: Fix out-of-bounds on the buf returned by memory_stat_format
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 2020 17:42:41 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200912174241.eeaa771755915f27babf9322@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200912155100.25578-1-songmuchun@bytedance.com>

On Sat, 12 Sep 2020 23:51:00 +0800 Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com> wrote:

> The memory_stat_format() returns a format string, but the return buf
> may not including the trailing '\0'. So the users may read the buf
> out of bounds.

That sounds serious.  Is a cc:stable appropriate?



  reply	other threads:[~2020-09-13  0:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-09-12 15:51 Muchun Song
2020-09-13  0:42 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2020-09-14  4:02   ` [External] " Muchun Song
2020-09-14  9:18     ` Michal Hocko
2020-09-14  9:43       ` Muchun Song
2020-09-14 10:32         ` Michal Hocko
2020-09-14 11:20           ` Chris Down
2020-09-14 11:46           ` Muchun Song
2020-09-14 11:57             ` Michal Hocko
2020-09-14 12:05               ` Muchun Song
2020-09-14  9:23 ` Michal Hocko

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