From: Richard Fitzgerald <rf@opensource.cirrus.com>
To: <pmladek@suse.com>, <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
<sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
Cc: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, <patches@opensource.cirrus.com>,
Richard Fitzgerald <rf@opensource.cirrus.com>
Subject: [PATCH] lib: vsprintf: Avoid 32-bit truncation in vsscanf number parsing
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2020 11:17:59 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201112111759.16377-1-rf@opensource.cirrus.com> (raw)
Number conversion in vsscanf converts a whole string of digits and then
extracts the field width part from the converted value. The maximum run
of digits is limited by overflow. Conversion was using either
simple_strto[u]l or simple_strto[u]ll based on the 'L' qualifier. This
created a difference in truncation between builds where long is 32-bit
and builds where it is 64-bit. This especially affects parsing a run of
contiguous digits into separate fields - the maximum length of the run
is 16 digits if long is 64-bit but only 8 digits if long is 32-bits.
For example a conversion "%6x%6x" would convert both fields correctly if
long is 64-bit but not if long is 32-bit.
It is undesirable for vsscanf to parse numbers differently depending on
the size of long on the target build.
As simple_strto[u]l just calls simple_strto[u]ll anyway the conversion
is always 64-bit, and the result is manipulated as a u64, so this is an
avoidable behaviour difference between 32-bit and 64-bit builds. The
conversion can call simple_strto[u]ll directly and preserve the full
64-bits that were parsed out of the string.
Signed-off-by: Richard Fitzgerald <rf@opensource.cirrus.com>
---
lib/vsprintf.c | 8 ++------
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/lib/vsprintf.c b/lib/vsprintf.c
index 14c9a6af1b23..63b6cddfa7f7 100644
--- a/lib/vsprintf.c
+++ b/lib/vsprintf.c
@@ -3444,13 +3444,9 @@ int vsscanf(const char *buf, const char *fmt, va_list args)
break;
if (is_sign)
- val.s = qualifier != 'L' ?
- simple_strtol(str, &next, base) :
- simple_strtoll(str, &next, base);
+ val.s = simple_strtoll(str, &next, base);
else
- val.u = qualifier != 'L' ?
- simple_strtoul(str, &next, base) :
- simple_strtoull(str, &next, base);
+ val.u = simple_strtoull(str, &next, base);
if (field_width > 0 && next - str > field_width) {
if (base == 0)
--
2.20.1
next reply other threads:[~2020-11-12 11:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-11-12 11:17 Richard Fitzgerald [this message]
2020-11-12 15:35 ` Steven Rostedt
2020-11-12 15:46 ` Richard Fitzgerald
2020-11-12 17:04 ` Steven Rostedt
2020-11-13 14:00 ` Petr Mladek
2020-11-16 10:47 ` Richard Fitzgerald
2020-11-12 16:17 ` Petr Mladek
2020-11-12 16:45 ` David Laight
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