On Mon, Dec 17, 2018 at 05:21:05PM -0800, Suren Baghdasaryan wrote: > On Mon, Dec 17, 2018 at 8:22 AM Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > How well has this thing been fuzzed? Custom string parser, yay! > > Honestly, not much. Normal cases and some obvious corner cases. Will > check if I can use some fuzzer to get more coverage or will write a > script. > I'm not thrilled about writing a custom parser, so if there is a > better way to handle this please advise. The grammar seems fairly simple, something like: some-full = "some" | "full" ; threshold-abs = integer ; threshold-pct = integer, { "%" } ; threshold = threshold-abs | threshold-pct ; window = integer ; trigger = some-full, space, threshold, space, window ; And that could even be expressed as two scanf formats: "%4s %u%% %u" , "%4s %u %u" which then gets your something like: char type[5]; if (sscanf(input, "%4s %u%% %u", &type, &pct, &window) == 3) { // do pct thing } else if (sscanf(intput, "%4s %u %u", &type, &thres, &window) == 3) { // do abs thing } else return -EFAIL; if (!strcmp(type, "some")) { // some } else if (!strcmp(type, "full")) { // full } else return -EFAIL; // do more which seems like a lot less error prone. Alternatively you can use 4 formats: "some %u%% %u" "some %u %u" "full %u%% %u" "full %u %u" and avoid the whole 'type' thing.