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From: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>
To: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] lib/vsprintf.c: handle invalid format specifiers more robustly
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2015 22:12:23 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87bncmfgm0.fsf@rasmusvillemoes.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1443427691.8361.226.camel@linux.intel.com> (Andy Shevchenko's message of "Mon, 28 Sep 2015 11:08:11 +0300")

On Mon, Sep 28 2015, Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com> wrote:

>>  		/*
>> -		 * Since %n poses a greater security risk than 
>> utility, treat
>> -		 * it as an invalid format specifier. Warn about its 
>> use so
>> -		 * that new instances don't get added.
>> +		 * Since %n poses a greater security risk than
>
> Any reason to wrap first string?

I just hit M-q in emacs and let that take care of somewhat sane
wrapping. I don't play diff golf.

>> +			/*
>> +			 * Presumably the arguments passed gcc's 
>> type
>> +			 * checking, but there is no safe or sane 
>> way
>> +			 * for us to continue parsing the format and
>> +			 * fetching from the va_list; the remaining
>> +			 * specifiers and arguments would be out of
>> +			 * sync.
>
> Could we use wider strings in the commentary here?

Ditto.

Rasmus

  reply	other threads:[~2015-09-28 20:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-09-25 17:41 [PATCH 0/4] printf stuff Rasmus Villemoes
2015-09-25 17:41 ` [PATCH 1/4] lib/vsprintf.c: handle invalid format specifiers more robustly Rasmus Villemoes
2015-09-28  8:08   ` Andy Shevchenko
2015-09-28 20:12     ` Rasmus Villemoes [this message]
2015-09-28 22:30   ` Kees Cook
2015-09-25 17:41 ` [PATCH 2/4] lib/vsprintf.c: also improve sanity check in bstr_printf() Rasmus Villemoes
2015-09-28 22:31   ` Kees Cook
2015-09-25 17:41 ` [PATCH 3/4] lib/vsprintf.c: Remove SPECIAL handling in pointer() Rasmus Villemoes
2015-09-28  8:55   ` Andy Shevchenko
2015-09-25 17:41 ` [PATCH 4/4] test_printf: test printf family at runtime Rasmus Villemoes
2015-09-28  9:12   ` Andy Shevchenko
2015-09-28 20:55     ` Rasmus Villemoes
2015-09-30  6:38       ` Andy Shevchenko
2015-09-30  8:56         ` Rasmus Villemoes
2015-09-28 22:38   ` Kees Cook
2015-09-29  7:10     ` Rasmus Villemoes
2015-09-29 17:32       ` Kees Cook
2015-09-30  9:05         ` Rasmus Villemoes
2015-09-30 15:30 ` [PATCH v2 0/4] printf stuff Rasmus Villemoes
2015-09-30 15:30   ` [PATCH v2 1/4] lib/vsprintf.c: handle invalid format specifiers more robustly Rasmus Villemoes
2015-09-30 15:30   ` [PATCH v2 2/4] lib/vsprintf.c: also improve sanity check in bstr_printf() Rasmus Villemoes
2015-09-30 15:30   ` [PATCH v2 3/4] lib/vsprintf.c: Remove SPECIAL handling in pointer() Rasmus Villemoes
2015-09-30 15:40     ` Andy Shevchenko
2015-09-30 15:30   ` [PATCH v2 4/4] test_printf: test printf family at runtime Rasmus Villemoes

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