Thread (18 messages) 18 messages, 5 authors, 2020-02-24

Re: [PATCH] vsprintf: sanely handle NULL passed to %pe

From: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>
Date: 2020-02-19 13:56:37
Also in: lkml

On 19/02/2020 14.48, Petr Mladek wrote:
On Wed 2020-02-19 12:53:22, Rasmus Villemoes wrote:
quoted
--- a/lib/vsprintf.c
+++ b/lib/vsprintf.c
@@ -619,7 +619,7 @@ static char *err_ptr(char *buf, char *end, void *ptr,
                     struct printf_spec spec)
 {
        int err = PTR_ERR(ptr);
-       const char *sym = errname(err);
+       const char *sym = err ? errname(err) : "NULL";
I like this more than adding "NULL" errname.
OK.
quoted
        if (sym)
                return string_nocheck(buf, end, sym, spec);

instead of the change(s) in errname.c? And then the test case for
'"%pe", NULL' should also be moved outside CONFIG_SYMBOLIC_ERRNAME.
The test should go into null_pointer() instead of errptr().
Eh, no, the behaviour of %pe is tested by errptr(). I'll keep it that
way. But I should add a #else section that tests how %pe behaves without
CONFIG_SYMBOLIC_ERRNAME - though that's orthogonal to this patch.
Could you send updated patch, please? ;-)
I'll wait a day or two for more comments. It doesn't seem very urgent.
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
quoted
BTW., your original patch for %p lacks corresponding update of
test_vsprintf.c. Please add appropriate test cases.
Good point. The existing test_hashed() is rather weak
and it did not catch this change.

It would be nice to make test_hash() more powerful.
Anyway, the minimal udpate would be:
diff --git a/lib/test_printf.c b/lib/test_printf.c
index 2d9f520d2f27..1726a678bccd 100644
--- a/lib/test_printf.c
+++ b/lib/test_printf.c
@@ -333,7 +333,7 @@ test_hashed(const char *fmt, const void *p)
 static void __init
 null_pointer(void)
 {
-	test_hashed("%p", NULL);
+	test(ZEROS "00000000", "%p", NULL);
No, it most certainly also needs to check a few "%p", ERR_PTR(-4) cases
(where one of course has to use explicit integers and not E* constants).

Rasmus
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