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authorKees Cook <kees.cook@canonical.com>2011-03-22 19:34:22 -0400
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2011-03-22 20:44:12 -0400
commit9f36e2c448007b54851e7e4fa48da97d1477a175 (patch)
tree2fa0ad88c75184dc79b28c287c853e97f779bf1f /kernel/kallsyms.c
parentfe3d8ad31cf51b062bbb8a9609eeb1d0c41a7f30 (diff)
printk: use %pK for /proc/kallsyms and /proc/modules
In an effort to reduce kernel address leaks that might be used to help target kernel privilege escalation exploits, this patch uses %pK when displaying addresses in /proc/kallsyms, /proc/modules, and /sys/module/*/sections/*. Note that this changes %x to %p, so some legitimately 0 values in /proc/kallsyms would have changed from 00000000 to "(null)". To avoid this, "(null)" is not used when using the "K" format. Anything that was already successfully parsing "(null)" in addition to full hex digits should have no problem with this change. (Thanks to Joe Perches for the suggestion.) Due to the %x to %p, "void *" casts are needed since these addresses are already "unsigned long" everywhere internally, due to their starting life as ELF section offsets. Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <kees.cook@canonical.com> Cc: Eugene Teo <eugene@redhat.com> Cc: Dan Rosenberg <drosenberg@vsecurity.com> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/kallsyms.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/kallsyms.c10
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/kallsyms.c b/kernel/kallsyms.c
index 6f6d091b5757..75dcca37d61a 100644
--- a/kernel/kallsyms.c
+++ b/kernel/kallsyms.c
@@ -477,13 +477,11 @@ static int s_show(struct seq_file *m, void *p)
477 */ 477 */
478 type = iter->exported ? toupper(iter->type) : 478 type = iter->exported ? toupper(iter->type) :
479 tolower(iter->type); 479 tolower(iter->type);
480 seq_printf(m, "%0*lx %c %s\t[%s]\n", 480 seq_printf(m, "%pK %c %s\t[%s]\n", (void *)iter->value,
481 (int)(2 * sizeof(void *)), 481 type, iter->name, iter->module_name);
482 iter->value, type, iter->name, iter->module_name);
483 } else 482 } else
484 seq_printf(m, "%0*lx %c %s\n", 483 seq_printf(m, "%pK %c %s\n", (void *)iter->value,
485 (int)(2 * sizeof(void *)), 484 iter->type, iter->name);
486 iter->value, iter->type, iter->name);
487 return 0; 485 return 0;
488} 486}
489 487