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From: Jonas Rebmann <jre@pengutronix.de>
To: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>, Andy Shevchenko <andy@kernel.org>,
	 Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: linux-hardening@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	 kernel@pengutronix.de, Jonas Rebmann <jre@pengutronix.de>
Subject: [PATCH 4/5] lib/string_helpers: use full destination buffer in string_unescape()
Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2026 19:38:09 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260916-string_unescape-v1-4-7f8bd986fa33@pengutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260916-string_unescape-v1-0-7f8bd986fa33@pengutronix.de>

Although all of the available sequences expand to exactly one byte, the
current implementation decrements the remaining bytes in the destination
buffer twice, effectively shortening it by one byte per each unescaped
character.

The extra decrement is only needed in the one case where a single loop
iteration produces two output bytes: when the sequence turns out not to
be a valid escape sequence, the previously skipped backslash has to be
emitted before the character is copied verbatim.

Add a kunit regression-test that unescapes into a barely long enough 3
buffer.

Fixes: 16c7fa05829e ("lib/string_helpers: introduce generic string_unescape")
Signed-off-by: Jonas Rebmann <jre@pengutronix.de>
---
 lib/string_helpers.c             | 2 +-
 lib/tests/string_helpers_kunit.c | 3 +++
 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/lib/string_helpers.c b/lib/string_helpers.c
index 98d6ed0eaab7..cb41ef9d8c5b 100644
--- a/lib/string_helpers.c
+++ b/lib/string_helpers.c
@@ -331,7 +331,6 @@ int string_unescape(char *src, char *dst, size_t size, unsigned int flags)
 	while (*src && --size) {
 		if (src[0] == '\\' && src[1] != '\0' && size > 1) {
 			src++;
-			size--;
 
 			if (flags & UNESCAPE_SPACE &&
 					unescape_space(&src, &out))
@@ -350,6 +349,7 @@ int string_unescape(char *src, char *dst, size_t size, unsigned int flags)
 				continue;
 
 			*out++ = '\\';
+			size--;
 		}
 		*out++ = *src++;
 	}
diff --git a/lib/tests/string_helpers_kunit.c b/lib/tests/string_helpers_kunit.c
index 3c6fa7324965..2e02c680cbb2 100644
--- a/lib/tests/string_helpers_kunit.c
+++ b/lib/tests/string_helpers_kunit.c
@@ -623,6 +623,9 @@ static void test_unescape(struct kunit *test)
 	test_string_unescape_one(test, "escape at end", UNESCAPE_HEX, "a\\qX", 3, "a\\", 2);
 	test_string_unescape_one(test, "backslash before escape", UNESCAPE_HEX, "\\\\x41B", 12, "\\\\x41B", 6);
 	test_string_unescape_one(test, "backslash escape", UNESCAPE_HEX | UNESCAPE_SPECIAL, "\\\\x41B", 16, "\\x41B", 5);
+
+	test_string_unescape_one(test, "short buffer", UNESCAPE_HEX, "\\x41\\x41B", 4, "AAB", 3);
+	test_string_unescape_one(test, "unrecognized escape at end", UNESCAPE_HEX, "B\\qX", 4, "B\\q", 3);
 }
 
 static void test_escape(struct kunit *test)

-- 
2.56.0.rc0.108.gf0ef1b96a0


  parent reply	other threads:[~2026-09-16 17:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-09-16 17:38 [PATCH 0/5] lib/string_helpers: fixes and test cases for string_unescape() Jonas Rebmann
2026-09-16 17:38 ` [PATCH 1/5] lib/tests: string_helpers: check null terminator too Jonas Rebmann
2026-09-17  7:14   ` Andy Shevchenko
2026-09-17  8:58     ` Jonas Rebmann
2026-09-17  9:07       ` Andy Shevchenko
2026-09-16 17:38 ` [PATCH 2/5] lib/tests: string_helpers: drop unused parameters Jonas Rebmann
2026-09-17  7:18   ` Andy Shevchenko
2026-09-17  8:58     ` Jonas Rebmann
2026-09-16 17:38 ` [PATCH 3/5] lib/tests: string_helpers: introduce test_string_unescape_one Jonas Rebmann
2026-09-17  7:21   ` Andy Shevchenko
2026-09-17  8:58     ` Jonas Rebmann
2026-09-17  9:08       ` Andy Shevchenko
2026-09-17  9:56         ` Jonas Rebmann
2026-09-17 12:17           ` Andy Shevchenko
2026-09-16 17:38 ` Jonas Rebmann [this message]
2026-09-17  7:45   ` [PATCH 4/5] lib/string_helpers: use full destination buffer in string_unescape() Andy Shevchenko
2026-09-17  9:02     ` Jonas Rebmann
2026-09-17 12:32       ` Andy Shevchenko
2026-09-16 17:38 ` [PATCH 5/5] lib/string_helpers: fix counting of remaining bytes " Jonas Rebmann
2026-09-17  8:04   ` Andy Shevchenko
2026-09-16 21:36 ` [PATCH 0/5] lib/string_helpers: fixes and test cases for string_unescape() Andrew Morton
2026-09-16 23:13   ` Eric Biggers
2026-09-17  0:04     ` Andrew Morton

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