linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] lib: string_helpers: fix potential snprintf() output truncation

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Message-ID: <CAMRc=Mcp4LBj0ZZx=hUg9KBk04XXcAtiNv+QjQesN1iCpDC+KA@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2024 09:30:16 +0200
From: Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@...ev.pl>
To: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@...nel.org>
Cc: Kees Cook <kees@...nel.org>, Andy Shevchenko <andy@...nel.org>, 
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, 
	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...senpartnership.com>, 
	Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>, linux-hardening@...r.kernel.org, 
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, 
	Bartosz Golaszewski <bartosz.golaszewski@...aro.org>, stable@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] lib: string_helpers: fix potential snprintf() output truncation

On Tue, Oct 22, 2024 at 9:15 AM Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@...nel.org> wrote:
>
> On 21. 10. 24, 12:04, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote:
> > From: Bartosz Golaszewski <bartosz.golaszewski@...aro.org>
> >
> > The output of ".%03u" with the unsigned int in range [0, 4294966295] may
> > get truncated if the target buffer is not 12 bytes.
>
> Perhaps, if you elaborate on how 'remainder' can become > 999?
>

Yeah, I guess it can't. Not sure what we do about such false
positives, do we have some common way to suppress them?

Bart