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authorKees Cook <kees.cook@canonical.com>2011-03-22 23:34:22 (GMT)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2011-03-23 00:44:12 (GMT)
commit9f36e2c448007b54851e7e4fa48da97d1477a175 (patch)
tree2fa0ad88c75184dc79b28c287c853e97f779bf1f /kernel
parentfe3d8ad31cf51b062bbb8a9609eeb1d0c41a7f30 (diff)
downloadlinux-9f36e2c448007b54851e7e4fa48da97d1477a175.tar.xz
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')
-rw-r--r--kernel/kallsyms.c10
-rw-r--r--kernel/module.c4
2 files changed, 6 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/kallsyms.c b/kernel/kallsyms.c
index 6f6d091..75dcca3 100644
--- a/kernel/kallsyms.c
+++ b/kernel/kallsyms.c
@@ -477,13 +477,11 @@ static int s_show(struct seq_file *m, void *p)
*/
type = iter->exported ? toupper(iter->type) :
tolower(iter->type);
- seq_printf(m, "%0*lx %c %s\t[%s]\n",
- (int)(2 * sizeof(void *)),
- iter->value, type, iter->name, iter->module_name);
+ seq_printf(m, "%pK %c %s\t[%s]\n", (void *)iter->value,
+ type, iter->name, iter->module_name);
} else
- seq_printf(m, "%0*lx %c %s\n",
- (int)(2 * sizeof(void *)),
- iter->value, iter->type, iter->name);
+ seq_printf(m, "%pK %c %s\n", (void *)iter->value,
+ iter->type, iter->name);
return 0;
}
diff --git a/kernel/module.c b/kernel/module.c
index efa290e..1f9f7bc 100644
--- a/kernel/module.c
+++ b/kernel/module.c
@@ -1168,7 +1168,7 @@ static ssize_t module_sect_show(struct module_attribute *mattr,
{
struct module_sect_attr *sattr =
container_of(mattr, struct module_sect_attr, mattr);
- return sprintf(buf, "0x%lx\n", sattr->address);
+ return sprintf(buf, "0x%pK\n", (void *)sattr->address);
}
static void free_sect_attrs(struct module_sect_attrs *sect_attrs)
@@ -3224,7 +3224,7 @@ static int m_show(struct seq_file *m, void *p)
mod->state == MODULE_STATE_COMING ? "Loading":
"Live");
/* Used by oprofile and other similar tools. */
- seq_printf(m, " 0x%p", mod->module_core);
+ seq_printf(m, " 0x%pK", mod->module_core);
/* Taints info */
if (mod->taints)