linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/2] string_helpers: Change semantics of string_escape

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Message-ID: <1422457545.31903.301.camel@linux.intel.com>
Date:	Wed, 28 Jan 2015 17:05:45 +0200
From:	Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>
To:	Rasmus Villemoes <linux@...musvillemoes.dk>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@...marydata.com>,
	"J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@...ldses.org>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-nfs@...r.kernel.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] string_helpers: Change semantics of
 string_escape_mem

On Wed, 2015-01-28 at 14:25 +0100, Rasmus Villemoes wrote:
> The current semantics of string_escape_mem are inadequate for one of
> its two current users, vsnprintf(). If that is to honour its contract,
> it must know how much space would be needed for the entire escaped
> buffer, and string_escape_mem provides no way of obtaining that (short
> of allocating a large enough buffer (~4 times input string) to let it
> play with, and that's definitely a big no-no inside vsnprintf).
> 
> So change the semantics for string_escape_mem to be more
> snprintf-like: Return the size of the output that would be generated
> if the destination buffer was big enough, but of course still only
> write to the part of dst it is allowed to, and don't do
> '\0'-termination. It is then up to the caller to detect whether output
> was truncated and to append a '\0' if desired.
> 
> This also fixes a bug in the escaped_string() helper function, which
> used to unconditionally pass a length of "end-buf" to
> string_escape_mem(); since the latter doesn't check osz for being
> insanely large, it would happily write to dst. For example,
> kasprintf(GFP_KERNEL, "something and then %pE", ...); is an easy way
> to trigger an oops.

> The patch is somewhat larger than I'd like, but I couldn't find a way
> of splitting it into smaller pieces. Implementation-wise, I changed
> the various escape_* helpers to return true if they handled the
> character, updating dst appropriately, false otherwise. Maybe there's
> a more elegant way, but this seems to work.

Can we split this to at least two parts: internal API changes to
string_escape_mem() and the rest?

> In test-string_helpers.c, I removed the now meaningless -ENOMEM test,
> and replaced it with testing for getting the expected return value
> even if the buffer is too small. Also ensure that nothing is written
> when osz==0.
> 
> In net/sunrpc/cache.c, I think qword_add still has the same
> semantics. Someone should definitely double-check this.


-- 
Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...el.com>
Intel Finland Oy

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