linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/2] vsprintf: Stop using obsolete simple

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Date:   Tue, 11 Dec 2018 10:19:08 -0800
From:   Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:     Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>
Cc:     thomas.preston@...ethink.co.uk,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Petr Mladek <pmladek@...e.com>,
        Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>, geert+renesas@...der.be,
        Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>, tcharding <me@...in.cc>,
        Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@...il.com>,
        Linux List Kernel Mailing <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        ben.dooks@...ethink.co.uk
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] vsprintf: Stop using obsolete simple_strtoul()

On Tue, Dec 11, 2018 at 10:05 AM Andy Shevchenko
<andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com> wrote:
>
> I think it's slightly more complicated, I run the following test case on glibc:
>
>         uint32_t hi, lo, t;
>
>         sscanf("00fafafafa0d0b0b0b0c000000", "%8x%8x%x", &hi, &lo, &t);
>
> 64-bit:
>         HI: 00fafafa LO: fa0d0b0b (c000000)
> 32-bit:
>         HI: 00fafafa LO: fa0d0b0b (ffffffff)

But that's exactly the values my pseudo-code gets (well, my
"pseudo-code obviously just said

    // Now do "sign" and range checking on val

The three sub-parts are: "00fafafa" "fa0d0b0b" and "0b0c000000"

and the third one encounters an overflow in "long" on 32-bit, so it
turns into ~0.

And yes, the 64-bit "long" in that third value gets truncated to
"uint32" when written to "t" (which is wht that "0b" part just gets
lost.

And that's just because of historical C scanf behavior. There's no
overflow checking in "int". Only in "long" and "long long".

                Linus