linux-kernel - Re: [Cocci] [PATCH] usb: atm: don't use snprintf() for sysfs attrs

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Date:   Thu, 27 Aug 2020 15:45:17 -0700
From:   Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:     Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
        Denis Efremov <efremov@...ux.com>
Cc:     Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@...ia.fr>,
        "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavoars@...nel.org>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        linux-usb@...r.kernel.org,
        Rasmus Villemoes <linux@...musvillemoes.dk>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, cocci <cocci@...teme.lip6.fr>,
        Alex Dewar <alex.dewar90@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [Cocci] [PATCH] usb: atm: don't use snprintf() for sysfs attrs

On Thu, 2020-08-27 at 15:20 -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 28, 2020 at 12:01:34AM +0300, Denis Efremov wrote:
> > Just FYI, I've send an addition to the device_attr_show.cocci script[1] to turn
> > simple cases of snprintf (e.g. "%i") to sprintf. Looks like many developers would
> > like it more than changing snprintf to scnprintf. As for me, I don't like the idea
> > of automated altering of the original logic from bounded snprint to unbouded one
> > with sprintf.
> 
> Agreed. This just makes me cringe. If the API design declares that when
> a show() callback starts, buf has been allocated with PAGE_SIZE bytes,
> then that's how the logic should proceed, and it should be using
> scnprintf...
> 
> show(...) {
> 	size_t remaining = PAGE_SIZE;
> 
> 	...
> 	remaining -= scnprintf(buf, remaining, "fmt", var args ...);
> 	remaining -= scnprintf(buf, remaining, "fmt", var args ...);
> 	remaining -= scnprintf(buf, remaining, "fmt", var args ...);
> 
> 	return PAGE_SIZE - remaining;
> }

It seems likely that coccinelle could do those transform
with any of sprintf/snprintf/scnprint too.

Though my bikeshed would use a single function and have
that function know the maximum output size

Something like:

With single line use:

	return sysfs_emit(buf, buf, fmt, ...) - buf;

and multi-line use:

	char *pos = buf;

	pos = sysfs_emit(buf, pos, fmt1, ...);
	pos = sysfs_emit(buf, pos, fmt2, ...);
	...

	return pos - buf;