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coredump: fix va_list corruption

A va_list needs to be copied in case it needs to be used twice.

Thanks to Hugh for debugging this issue, leading to various panics.

Tested:

lpq84:~# echo "|/foobar12345 %h %h %h %h %h %h %h %h %h %h %h %h %h %h %h %h %h %h %h %h" >/proc/sys/kernel/core_pattern

'produce_core' is simply : main() { *(int *)0 = 1;}

lpq84:~# ./produce_core
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
lpq84:~# dmesg | tail -1
[ 614.352947] Core dump to |/foobar12345 lpq84 lpq84 lpq84 lpq84 lpq84 lpq84 lpq84 lpq84 lpq84 lpq84 lpq84 lpq84 lpq84 lpq84 lpq84 lpq84 lpq84 lpq84 lpq84 (null) pipe failed

Notice the last argument was replaced by a NULL (we were lucky enough to
not crash, but do not try this on your production machine !)

After fix :

lpq83:~# echo "|/foobar12345 %h %h %h %h %h %h %h %h %h %h %h %h %h %h %h %h %h %h %h %h" >/proc/sys/kernel/core_pattern
lpq83:~# ./produce_core
Segmentation fault
lpq83:~# dmesg | tail -1
[ 740.800441] Core dump to |/foobar12345 lpq83 lpq83 lpq83 lpq83 lpq83 lpq83 lpq83 lpq83 lpq83 lpq83 lpq83 lpq83 lpq83 lpq83 lpq83 lpq83 lpq83 lpq83 lpq83 lpq83 pipe failed

Fixes: 5fe9d8ca21cc ("coredump: cn_vprintf() has no reason to call vsnprintf() twice")
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Diagnosed-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 3.11+
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

authored by

Eric Dumazet and committed by
Linus Torvalds
404ca80e 6d459690

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fs/coredump.c
··· 73 73 static int cn_vprintf(struct core_name *cn, const char *fmt, va_list arg) 74 74 { 75 75 int free, need; 76 + va_list arg_copy; 76 77 77 78 again: 78 79 free = cn->size - cn->used; 79 - need = vsnprintf(cn->corename + cn->used, free, fmt, arg); 80 + 81 + va_copy(arg_copy, arg); 82 + need = vsnprintf(cn->corename + cn->used, free, fmt, arg_copy); 83 + va_end(arg_copy); 84 + 80 85 if (need < free) { 81 86 cn->used += need; 82 87 return 0;