This problem affects me quite severely. This patch fixes the problem. Please make this availible ASAP. -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [PATCH] klogd busy loop on zero byte (output from 3c59x driver) Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 09:48:57 +0100 From: "Troels Walsted Hansen" <troels> To: linux-kernel.org, greg.com, joey Hi all. I found a bug in the sysklogd package version 1.4. When it encounters a zero byte in the kernel logging output, the text parser enters a busy loop. I came upon it when the 3c59x driver from kernel 2.4.0 started outputting two zero bytes for the product code of my laptop's 3Com card. It could be argued that the kernel should never output zero bytes in the logging info, but obviously that will happen from time to time. I fear this bug might be considered a security issue as well, if the kernel can be coerced to output a zero byte somehow, all kernel logging will stop. I have included a patch to klogd.c to correct the issue. --- sysklogd-1.4.orig/klogd.c Mon Sep 18 09:34:11 2000 +++ sysklogd-1.4/klogd.c Thu Jan 11 09:26:10 2001 @@ -739,6 +758,13 @@ break; /* full line_buff or end of input buffer */ } + if( *ptr == '\0' ) /* zero byte */ + { + ptr++; /* skip zero byte */ + space -= 1; + len -= 1; + break; + } if( *ptr == '\n' ) /* newline */ { ptr++; /* skip newline */ -- Troels Walsted Hansen troels
reassigned to the correct package...
Will be fixed in 1.4-5.
Any idea when the updated sysklogd will be released? With the release of kernel 2.4.1 a lot of 3c59x driver users can be affected. (At least I was! ;-) More info is in these three threads on linux-kernel: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=98086554600001&w=2&r=1 http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=98084989023325&w=2 http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=97920293924533&w=2
It's available in rawhide currently.
Thanks, I'll take a look and see if it fixes the problem I have in 2.4.1, if you don't hear back from me it's because it works. ;-)