Re: [PATCH] Input: analog - fix invalid snprintf() call

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On Tue, Mar 23, 2021 at 02:29:15PM +0100, Rasmus Villemoes wrote:
> On 23/03/2021 14.14, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
> > 
> > overlapping input and output arguments to snprintf() are
> > undefined behavior in C99:
> > 
> 
> Good luck:
> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/1457469654-17059-1-git-send-email-linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/
> 
> At least 5 years ago the consensus from old-timers was that "the
> kernel's snprintf supports this use case, just keep it working that way".
> 
> > diff --git a/drivers/input/joystick/analog.c b/drivers/input/joystick/analog.c
> > index f798922a4598..8c9fed3f13e2 100644
> > --- a/drivers/input/joystick/analog.c
> > +++ b/drivers/input/joystick/analog.c
> > @@ -419,14 +419,16 @@ static void analog_calibrate_timer(struct analog_port *port)
> >  
> >  static void analog_name(struct analog *analog)
> >  {
> > -	snprintf(analog->name, sizeof(analog->name), "Analog %d-axis %d-button",
> > +	int len;
> > +
> > +	len = snprintf(analog->name, sizeof(analog->name), "Analog %d-axis %d-button",
> >  		 hweight8(analog->mask & ANALOG_AXES_STD),
> >  		 hweight8(analog->mask & ANALOG_BTNS_STD) + !!(analog->mask & ANALOG_BTNS_CHF) * 2 +
> >  		 hweight16(analog->mask & ANALOG_BTNS_GAMEPAD) + !!(analog->mask & ANALOG_HBTN_CHF) * 4);
> >  
> >  	if (analog->mask & ANALOG_HATS_ALL)
> > -		snprintf(analog->name, sizeof(analog->name), "%s %d-hat",
> > -			 analog->name, hweight16(analog->mask & ANALOG_HATS_ALL));
> > +		len += snprintf(analog->name + len, sizeof(analog->name) - len, "%d-hat",
> > +			 hweight16(analog->mask & ANALOG_HATS_ALL));
> 
> Use scnprintf, this is too fragile and hard to verify. If the first
> snprintf overflows, the second passes a huge size_t to snprintf which
> will WARN.

Also the format needs to be " %d-hat" (note the leading space).

Thanks.

-- 
Dmitry



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