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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/module.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/module.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/module.c4
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/module.c b/kernel/module.c
index efa290ea94bf..1f9f7bc56ca1 100644
--- a/kernel/module.c
+++ b/kernel/module.c
@@ -1168,7 +1168,7 @@ static ssize_t module_sect_show(struct module_attribute *mattr,
1168{ 1168{
1169 struct module_sect_attr *sattr = 1169 struct module_sect_attr *sattr =
1170 container_of(mattr, struct module_sect_attr, mattr); 1170 container_of(mattr, struct module_sect_attr, mattr);
1171 return sprintf(buf, "0x%lx\n", sattr->address); 1171 return sprintf(buf, "0x%pK\n", (void *)sattr->address);
1172} 1172}
1173 1173
1174static void free_sect_attrs(struct module_sect_attrs *sect_attrs) 1174static void free_sect_attrs(struct module_sect_attrs *sect_attrs)
@@ -3224,7 +3224,7 @@ static int m_show(struct seq_file *m, void *p)
3224 mod->state == MODULE_STATE_COMING ? "Loading": 3224 mod->state == MODULE_STATE_COMING ? "Loading":
3225 "Live"); 3225 "Live");
3226 /* Used by oprofile and other similar tools. */ 3226 /* Used by oprofile and other similar tools. */
3227 seq_printf(m, " 0x%p", mod->module_core); 3227 seq_printf(m, " 0x%pK", mod->module_core);
3228 3228
3229 /* Taints info */ 3229 /* Taints info */
3230 if (mod->taints) 3230 if (mod->taints)