Hi all,
On Tue, 2 Jun 2020 19:30:48 +1000 Stephen Rothwell <s...@canb.auug.org.au>
wrote:
>
> Today's linux-next merge of the akpm tree got a conflict in:
>
> kernel/trace/bpf_trace.c
>
> between commit:
>
> b36e62eb8521 ("bpf: Use strncpy_from_unsafe_strict() in bpf_seq_printf()
> helper")
>
> from the net-next tree and patch:
>
> "bpf:bpf_seq_printf(): handle potentially unsafe format string better"
>
> from the akpm tree.
>
> I fixed it up (I just dropped the akpm tree patch (and its fix) for now)
> and can carry the fix as necessary. This is now fixed as far as linux-next
> is concerned, but any non trivial conflicts should be mentioned to your
> upstream maintainer when your tree is submitted for merging. You may
> also want to consider cooperating with the maintainer of the conflicting
> tree to minimise any particularly complex conflicts.
I also had to ad the below patch:
From: Stephen Rothwell <s...@canb.auug.org.au>
Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2020 19:40:42 +1000
Subject: [PATCH] fix up for strncpy_from_unsafe_strict rename
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <s...@canb.auug.org.au>
---
kernel/trace/bpf_trace.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/kernel/trace/bpf_trace.c b/kernel/trace/bpf_trace.c
index af4bca8343ad..0d88e9b24928 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/bpf_trace.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/bpf_trace.c
@@ -619,7 +619,7 @@ BPF_CALL_5(bpf_seq_printf, struct seq_file *, m, char *,
fmt, u32, fmt_size,
goto out;
}
- err = strncpy_from_unsafe_strict(bufs->buf[memcpy_cnt],
+ err = strncpy_from_kernel_nofault(bufs->buf[memcpy_cnt],
(void *) (long)
args[fmt_cnt],
MAX_SEQ_PRINTF_STR_LEN);
if (err < 0)
--
2.26.2
--
Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell
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