drivers/base: Fix length checks in create_syslog_header()/dev_vprintk_emit()
snprintf() returns the number of bytes that could have been written (excluding the null), not the actual number of bytes written. Given a long enough subsystem or device name, these functions will advance beyond the end of the on-stack buffer in dev_vprintk_exit(), resulting in an information leak or stack corruption. I don't know whether such a long name is currently possible. In case snprintf() returns a value >= the buffer size, do not add structured logging information. Also WARN if this happens, so we can fix the driver or increase the buffer size. Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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