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Message-ID: <CAAM7YAnZ=NtsOuR0Pm82fWCSUdFLkJ7NLNk+fNK9+T4viW=_1Q@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Sat, 15 Jun 2019 10:41:21 +0800
From:   "Yan, Zheng" <ukernel@...il.com>
To:     Jeff Layton <jlayton@...nel.org>
Cc:     Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        ceph-devel <ceph-devel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Ilya Dryomov <idryomov@...il.com>, Zheng Yan <zyan@...hat.com>,
        Sage Weil <sage@...hat.com>, agruenba@...hat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] lib/vsprintf: add snprintf_noterm

On Fri, Jun 14, 2019 at 9:48 PM Jeff Layton <jlayton@...nel.org> wrote:
>
> The getxattr interface returns a length after filling out the value
> buffer, and the convention with xattrs is to not NULL terminate string
> data.
>
> CephFS implements some virtual xattrs by using snprintf to fill the
> buffer, but that always NULL terminates the string. If userland sends
> down a buffer that is just the right length to hold the text without
> termination then we end up truncating the value.
>
> Factor the formatting piece of vsnprintf into a separate helper
> function, and have vsnprintf call that and then do the NULL termination
> afterward. Then add a snprintf_noterm function that calls the new helper
> to populate the string but skips the termination.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@...nel.org>
> ---
>  include/linux/kernel.h |   2 +
>  lib/vsprintf.c         | 145 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------
>  2 files changed, 103 insertions(+), 44 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/kernel.h b/include/linux/kernel.h
> index 2d14e21c16c0..2f305a347482 100644
> --- a/include/linux/kernel.h
> +++ b/include/linux/kernel.h
> @@ -462,6 +462,8 @@ extern int num_to_str(char *buf, int size,
>  extern __printf(2, 3) int sprintf(char *buf, const char * fmt, ...);
>  extern __printf(2, 0) int vsprintf(char *buf, const char *, va_list);
>  extern __printf(3, 4)
> +int snprintf_noterm(char *buf, size_t size, const char *fmt, ...);
> +extern __printf(3, 4)
>  int snprintf(char *buf, size_t size, const char *fmt, ...);
>  extern __printf(3, 0)
>  int vsnprintf(char *buf, size_t size, const char *fmt, va_list args);
> diff --git a/lib/vsprintf.c b/lib/vsprintf.c
> index 791b6fa36905..ad5f4990eda3 100644
> --- a/lib/vsprintf.c
> +++ b/lib/vsprintf.c
> @@ -2296,53 +2296,24 @@ set_precision(struct printf_spec *spec, int prec)
>  }
>
>  /**
> - * vsnprintf - Format a string and place it in a buffer
> + * vsnprintf_noterm - Format a string and place it in a buffer without NULL
> + *                   terminating it
>   * @buf: The buffer to place the result into
> - * @size: The size of the buffer, including the trailing null space
> + * @end: The end of the buffer
>   * @fmt: The format string to use
>   * @args: Arguments for the format string
>   *
> - * This function generally follows C99 vsnprintf, but has some
> - * extensions and a few limitations:
> - *
> - *  - ``%n`` is unsupported
> - *  - ``%p*`` is handled by pointer()
> - *
> - * See pointer() or Documentation/core-api/printk-formats.rst for more
> - * extensive description.
> - *
> - * **Please update the documentation in both places when making changes**
> - *
> - * The return value is the number of characters which would
> - * be generated for the given input, excluding the trailing
> - * '\0', as per ISO C99. If you want to have the exact
> - * number of characters written into @buf as return value
> - * (not including the trailing '\0'), use vscnprintf(). If the
> - * return is greater than or equal to @size, the resulting
> - * string is truncated.
> - *
> - * If you're not already dealing with a va_list consider using snprintf().
> + * See the documentation over vsnprintf. This function does NOT add any NULL
> + * termination to the buffer. The caller must do that if necessary.
>   */
> -int vsnprintf(char *buf, size_t size, const char *fmt, va_list args)
> +static int vsnprintf_noterm(char *buf, char *end, const char *fmt,
> +                           va_list args)
>  {
>         unsigned long long num;
> -       char *str, *end;
> +       char *str;
>         struct printf_spec spec = {0};
>
> -       /* Reject out-of-range values early.  Large positive sizes are
> -          used for unknown buffer sizes. */
> -       if (WARN_ON_ONCE(size > INT_MAX))
> -               return 0;
> -
>         str = buf;
> -       end = buf + size;
> -
> -       /* Make sure end is always >= buf */
> -       if (end < buf) {
> -               end = ((void *)-1);
> -               size = end - buf;
> -       }
> -
>         while (*fmt) {
>                 const char *old_fmt = fmt;
>                 int read = format_decode(fmt, &spec);
> @@ -2462,18 +2433,69 @@ int vsnprintf(char *buf, size_t size, const char *fmt, va_list args)
>                         str = number(str, end, num, spec);
>                 }
>         }
> -
>  out:
> +       /* the trailing null byte doesn't count towards the total */
> +       return str-buf;
> +}
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL(vsnprintf_noterm);

export static function?

> +
> +/**
> + * vsnprintf - Format a string and place it in a buffer
> + * @buf: The buffer to place the result into
> + * @size: The size of the buffer, including the trailing null space
> + * @fmt: The format string to use
> + * @args: Arguments for the format string
> + *
> + * This function generally follows C99 vsnprintf, but has some
> + * extensions and a few limitations:
> + *
> + *  - ``%n`` is unsupported
> + *  - ``%p*`` is handled by pointer()
> + *
> + * See pointer() or Documentation/core-api/printk-formats.rst for more
> + * extensive description.
> + *
> + * **Please update the documentation in both places when making changes**
> + *
> + * The return value is the number of characters which would
> + * be generated for the given input, excluding the trailing
> + * '\0', as per ISO C99. If you want to have the exact
> + * number of characters written into @buf as return value
> + * (not including the trailing '\0'), use vscnprintf(). If the
> + * return is greater than or equal to @size, the resulting
> + * string is truncated.
> + *
> + * If you're not already dealing with a va_list consider using snprintf().
> + */
> +int vsnprintf(char *buf, size_t size, const char *fmt, va_list args)
> +{
> +       int ret;
> +       char *end;
> +
> +       /* Reject out-of-range values early.  Large positive sizes are
> +          used for unknown buffer sizes. */
> +       if (WARN_ON_ONCE(size > INT_MAX))
> +               return 0;
> +
> +       end = buf + size;
> +
> +       /* Make sure end is always >= buf */
> +       if (end < buf) {
> +               end = ((void *)-1);
> +               size = end - buf;
> +       }
> +
> +       ret = vsnprintf_noterm(buf, end, fmt, args);
> +
> +       /* NULL terminate the result */
>         if (size > 0) {
> -               if (str < end)
> -                       *str = '\0';
> +               if (ret < size)
> +                       buf[ret] = '\0';
>                 else
> -                       end[-1] = '\0';
> +                       buf[size - 1] = '\0';
>         }
>
> -       /* the trailing null byte doesn't count towards the total */
> -       return str-buf;
> -
> +       return ret;
>  }
>  EXPORT_SYMBOL(vsnprintf);
>
> @@ -2506,6 +2528,41 @@ int vscnprintf(char *buf, size_t size, const char *fmt, va_list args)
>  }
>  EXPORT_SYMBOL(vscnprintf);
>
> +/**
> + * snprintf_noterm - Format a string and place it in a buffer
> + * @buf: The buffer to place the result into
> + * @size: The size of the buffer, including the trailing null space
> + * @fmt: The format string to use
> + * @...: Arguments for the format string
> + *
> + * Same as snprintf, but don't NULL terminate the result.
> + */
> +int snprintf_noterm(char *buf, size_t size, const char *fmt, ...)
> +{
> +       va_list args;
> +       int ret;
> +       char *end;
> +
> +       /* Reject out-of-range values early.  Large positive sizes are
> +          used for unknown buffer sizes. */
> +       if (WARN_ON_ONCE(size > INT_MAX))
> +               return 0;
> +
> +       /* Make sure end is always >= buf */
> +       end = buf + size;
> +       if (end < buf) {
> +               end = ((void *)-1);
> +               size = end - buf;
> +       }
> +
> +       va_start(args, fmt);
> +       ret = vsnprintf_noterm(buf, end, fmt, args);
> +       va_end(args);
> +
> +       return ret;
> +}
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL(snprintf_noterm);
> +
>  /**
>   * snprintf - Format a string and place it in a buffer
>   * @buf: The buffer to place the result into
> --
> 2.21.0
>

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