linux-hardening - Re: [PATCH 2/9] lib/cmdline: Fix an invalid format specifier in an assertion msg

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Message-ID: <293a2156-6e0e-4e80-b31e-5d553e63b707@roeck-us.net>
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2024 05:25:38 -0800
From: Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>
To: David Gow <davidgow@...gle.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/9] lib/cmdline: Fix an invalid format specifier in an
 assertion msg

On Wed, Feb 21, 2024 at 05:27:15PM +0800, David Gow wrote:
> The correct format specifier for p - n (both p and n are pointers) is
> %td, as the type should be ptrdiff_t.
> 
> This was discovered by annotating KUnit assertion macros with gcc's
> printf specifier, but note that gcc incorrectly suggested a %d or %ld
> specifier (depending on the pointer size of the architecture being
> built).
> 
> Fixes: 0ea09083116d ("lib/cmdline: Allow get_options() to take 0 to validate the input")
> Signed-off-by: David Gow <davidgow@...gle.com>

Tested-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>

> ---
>  lib/cmdline_kunit.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/lib/cmdline_kunit.c b/lib/cmdline_kunit.c
> index d4572dbc9145..705b82736be0 100644
> --- a/lib/cmdline_kunit.c
> +++ b/lib/cmdline_kunit.c
> @@ -124,7 +124,7 @@ static void cmdline_do_one_range_test(struct kunit *test, const char *in,
>  			    n, e[0], r[0]);
>  
>  	p = memchr_inv(&r[1], 0, sizeof(r) - sizeof(r[0]));
> -	KUNIT_EXPECT_PTR_EQ_MSG(test, p, NULL, "in test %u at %u out of bound", n, p - r);
> +	KUNIT_EXPECT_PTR_EQ_MSG(test, p, NULL, "in test %u at %td out of bound", n, p - r);
>  }
>  
>  static void cmdline_test_range(struct kunit *test)
> -- 
> 2.44.0.rc0.258.g7320e95886-goog
>