linux-kernel - [PATCH] net/ceph/osdmap.c: fix undefined behavior when using snprintf()

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Message-Id: <1358882429-19066-1-git-send-email-dinggnu@gmail.com>
Date:	Tue, 22 Jan 2013 19:20:29 +0000
From:	Cong Ding <dinggnu@...il.com>
To:	Sage Weil <sage@...tank.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	ceph-devel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	Cong Ding <dinggnu@...il.com>
Subject: [PATCH] net/ceph/osdmap.c: fix undefined behavior when using snprintf()

The variable "str" is used as both the source and destination in function
snprintf(), which is undefined behavior based on C11. The original description
in C11 is:
	"If copying takes place between objects that
	overlap, the behavior is undefined."

And, the function of ceph_osdmap_state_str() is to return the osdmap state, so
it should return "doesn't exist" when all the conditions are not satisfied. I
fix it in this patch.

Based on C11, snprintf() does nothing if n==0:
	"If n is zero, nothing is written, and s may be a
	null pointer. Otherwise, output characters beyond
	the n-1st are discarded rather than being written to
	the array, and a null character is written at the
	end of the characters actually written into the
	array."
so I remove the unnecessary check of len (because it is not a busy path and
saves a few lines of code).

Signed-off-by: Cong Ding <dinggnu@...il.com>
---
 net/ceph/osdmap.c |   27 ++++++++-------------------
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/ceph/osdmap.c b/net/ceph/osdmap.c
index de73214..3131a99d3 100644
--- a/net/ceph/osdmap.c
+++ b/net/ceph/osdmap.c
@@ -13,26 +13,15 @@
 
 char *ceph_osdmap_state_str(char *str, int len, int state)
 {
-	int flag = 0;
-
-	if (!len)
-		goto done;
-
-	*str = '\0';
-	if (state) {
-		if (state & CEPH_OSD_EXISTS) {
-			snprintf(str, len, "exists");
-			flag = 1;
-		}
-		if (state & CEPH_OSD_UP) {
-			snprintf(str, len, "%s%s%s", str, (flag ? ", " : ""),
-				 "up");
-			flag = 1;
-		}
-	} else {
+	if ((state & CEPH_OSD_EXISTS) && (state & CEPH_OSD_UP))
+		snprintf(str, len, "exists, up");
+	else if (state & CEPH_OSD_EXISTS)
+		snprintf(str, len, "exists");
+	else if (state & CEPH_OSD_UP)
+		snprintf(str, len, "up");
+	else
 		snprintf(str, len, "doesn't exist");
-	}
-done:
+
 	return str;
 }
 
-- 
1.7.10.4

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