From: Jeff Mahoney Subject: [PATCH] reiserfs: add locking around error buffer The formatting of the error buffer is race prone. It uses static buffers for both formatting and output. While overwriting the error buffer can product garbled output, overwriting the format buffer with incompatible % directives can cause crashes. Signed-off-by: Jeff Mahoney --- fs/reiserfs/prints.c | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/fs/reiserfs/prints.c +++ b/fs/reiserfs/prints.c @@ -184,7 +184,7 @@ static char *is_there_reiserfs_struct(ch printk ("bad key %lu %lu %lu %lu", key->k_dir_id, key->k_objectid, key->k_offset, key->k_uniqueness); */ - +static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(error_lock); static void prepare_error_buf(const char *fmt, va_list args) { char *fmt1 = fmt_buf; @@ -192,6 +192,8 @@ static void prepare_error_buf(const char char *p = error_buf; int what; + spin_lock(&error_lock); + strcpy(fmt1, fmt); while ((k = is_there_reiserfs_struct(fmt1, &what)) != NULL) { @@ -237,6 +239,7 @@ static void prepare_error_buf(const char fmt1 = k + 2; } vsprintf(p, fmt1, args); + spin_unlock(&error_lock); }