[PATCH 2/2] staging: android: ion: Switch from WARN to pr_warn

Laura Abbott labbott at redhat.com
Fri Jan 5 19:14:09 UTC 2018


Syzbot reported a warning with Ion:

WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 3502 at drivers/staging/android/ion/ion-ioctl.c:73 ion_ioctl+0x2db/0x380 drivers/staging/android/ion/ion-ioctl.c:73
Kernel panic - not syncing: panic_on_warn set ...

This is a warning that validation of the ioctl fields failed. This was
deliberately added as a warning to make it very obvious to developers that
something needed to be fixed. In reality, this is overkill and disturbs
fuzzing. Switch to pr_warn for a message instead.

Reported-by: syzbot+fa2d5f63ee5904a0115a at syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Reported-by: syzbot <syzkaller at googlegroups.com>
Signed-off-by: Laura Abbott <labbott at redhat.com>
---
 drivers/staging/android/ion/ion-ioctl.c | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/android/ion/ion-ioctl.c b/drivers/staging/android/ion/ion-ioctl.c
index 6ed2cc15c8c0..a8d3cc412fb9 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/android/ion/ion-ioctl.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/android/ion/ion-ioctl.c
@@ -60,8 +60,10 @@ long ion_ioctl(struct file *filp, unsigned int cmd, unsigned long arg)
 		return -EFAULT;
 
 	ret = validate_ioctl_arg(cmd, &data);
-	if (WARN_ON_ONCE(ret))
+	if (ret) {
+		pr_warn_once("%s: ioctl validate failed\n", __func__);
 		return ret;
+	}
 
 	if (!(dir & _IOC_WRITE))
 		memset(&data, 0, sizeof(data));
-- 
2.14.3



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