Re: [PATCH 03/10] scsi: NCR5380: Replace snprintf() with the safer scnprintf() variant

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



On Sat, 10 Feb 2024, James Bottomley wrote:

> On Thu, 2024-02-08 at 10:29 +0000, Lee Jones wrote:
> > On Thu, 08 Feb 2024, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > 
> > > Hi Lee,
> > > 
> > > Thanks for your patch!
> > > 
> > > On Thu, Feb 8, 2024 at 9:48 AM Lee Jones <lee@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > > There is a general misunderstanding amongst engineers that
> > > > {v}snprintf()
> > > > returns the length of the data *actually* encoded into the
> > > > destination
> > > > array.  However, as per the C99 standard {v}snprintf() really
> > > > returns
> > > > the length of the data that *would have been* written if there
> > > > were
> > > > enough space for it.  This misunderstanding has led to buffer-
> > > > overruns
> > > > in the past.  It's generally considered safer to use the
> > > > {v}scnprintf()
> > > > variants in their place (or even sprintf() in simple cases).  So
> > > > let's
> > > > do that.
> > > 
> > > Confused... The return value is not used at all?
> > 
> > Future proofing.  The idea of the effort is to rid the use entirely.
> > 
> >  - Usage is inside a sysfs handler passing PAGE_SIZE as the size
> >    - s/snprintf/sysfs_emit/
> >  - Usage is inside a sysfs handler passing a bespoke value as the
> > size
> >    - s/snprintf/scnprintf/
> >  - Return value used, but does *not* care about overflow
> >    - s/snprintf/scnprintf/
> >  - Return value used, caller *does* care about overflow
> >    - s/snprintf/seq_buf/
> >  - Return value not used
> >    - s/snprintf/scnprintf/
> > 
> > This is the final case.
> 
> To re-ask Geert's question: the last case can't ever lead to a bug or
> problem, what value does churning the kernel to change it provide?  As
> Finn said, if we want to deprecate it as a future pattern, put it in
> checkpatch.

Adding this to checkpatch is a good idea.

What if we also take Kees's suggestion and hit all of these found in
SCSI in one patch to keep the churn down to a minimum?

-- 
Lee Jones [李琼斯]




[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
[Index of Archives]     [SCSI Target Devel]     [Linux SCSI Target Infrastructure]     [Kernel Newbies]     [IDE]     [Security]     [Git]     [Netfilter]     [Bugtraq]     [Yosemite News]     [MIPS Linux]     [ARM Linux]     [Linux Security]     [Linux RAID]     [Linux ATA RAID]     [Linux IIO]     [Samba]     [Device Mapper]

  Powered by Linux