linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 0/4] Make sscanf() stricter

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Date:   Mon, 12 Jun 2023 17:23:18 -0400
From:   Demi Marie Obenour <demi@...isiblethingslab.com>
To:     Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>
Cc:     Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Rasmus Villemoes <linux@...musvillemoes.dk>,
        Hans de Goede <hdegoede@...hat.com>,
        Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...nel.org>,
        Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@...ux.intel.com>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Juergen Gross <jgross@...e.com>,
        Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@...nel.org>,
        Oleksandr Tyshchenko <oleksandr_tyshchenko@...m.com>,
        Lee Jones <lee@...nel.org>, Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@....com>,
        Petr Mladek <pmladek@...e.com>,
        Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
        Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@...omium.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 0/4] Make sscanf() stricter

On Tue, Jun 13, 2023 at 12:00:44AM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 12, 2023 at 04:25:01PM -0400, Demi Marie Obenour wrote:
> > On Mon, Jun 12, 2023 at 02:59:38PM +0300, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
> > > > +	bool _placeholder;
> > > > +	return simple_strntoull(cp, INT_MAX, endp, base, &_placeholder);
> > > 
> > > This can be done without introducing dummy variables:
> > > 
> > > 	void f(bool *b)
> > > 	{
> > > 	}
> > > 
> > > 	f((bool[1]){});
> > 
> > This is more consise, but (at least to me) significantly less readable.
> > 
> > > > > lib/vsprintf.c:3727:26: error: unknown conversion type character ‘!’ in format [-Werror=format=]
> > > > So NAK.
> > > 
> > > Yeah, ! should go after format specifier like it does for %p.
> > 
> > I hadn't considered that.  Is the typical approach in Linux to use e.g.
> > %d%[!] if one wants a literal '!'?
> 
> It might be that the cleanest way we have is to create %p-like extensions to
> sscanf(). %p takes alnum as parameter and that is usually works since it makes
> a little sense to attach alnum suffix to the pointer.
> 
> (I don't like to have %dX, where X is alnum as we expanding our hack to
>  something which people don't expect to be altered even in the kernelm, you may
>  refer to the discussion about %de for printing errors)

Personally I’m not too worried about compatibility with userspace
sscanf(), except to the extent that -Werror=format can keep working.
Userspace sscanf() is almost useless: it has undefined behavior on
integer overflow and swallows spaces that should usually be rejected.
I typically either use strto*l() or (as I am currently doing for Xen’s
toolstack) just write my own parsing functions from scratch.
-- 
Sincerely,
Demi Marie Obenour (she/her/hers)
Invisible Things Lab

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