Thread (3 messages) 3 messages, 3 authors, 2021-03-23

Re: [PATCH] Input: analog - fix invalid snprintf() call

From: Rasmus Villemoes <hidden>
Date: 2021-03-23 13:30:02
Also in: lkml

On 23/03/2021 14.14, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>

overlapping input and output arguments to snprintf() are
undefined behavior in C99:
Good luck:
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/1457469654-17059-1-git-send-email-linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk/ (local)

At least 5 years ago the consensus from old-timers was that "the
kernel's snprintf supports this use case, just keep it working that way".
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
diff --git a/drivers/input/joystick/analog.c b/drivers/input/joystick/analog.c
index f798922a4598..8c9fed3f13e2 100644
--- a/drivers/input/joystick/analog.c
+++ b/drivers/input/joystick/analog.c
@@ -419,14 +419,16 @@ static void analog_calibrate_timer(struct analog_port *port)
 
 static void analog_name(struct analog *analog)
 {
-	snprintf(analog->name, sizeof(analog->name), "Analog %d-axis %d-button",
+	int len;
+
+	len = snprintf(analog->name, sizeof(analog->name), "Analog %d-axis %d-button",
 		 hweight8(analog->mask & ANALOG_AXES_STD),
 		 hweight8(analog->mask & ANALOG_BTNS_STD) + !!(analog->mask & ANALOG_BTNS_CHF) * 2 +
 		 hweight16(analog->mask & ANALOG_BTNS_GAMEPAD) + !!(analog->mask & ANALOG_HBTN_CHF) * 4);
 
 	if (analog->mask & ANALOG_HATS_ALL)
-		snprintf(analog->name, sizeof(analog->name), "%s %d-hat",
-			 analog->name, hweight16(analog->mask & ANALOG_HATS_ALL));
+		len += snprintf(analog->name + len, sizeof(analog->name) - len, "%d-hat",
+			 hweight16(analog->mask & ANALOG_HATS_ALL));
Use scnprintf, this is too fragile and hard to verify. If the first
snprintf overflows, the second passes a huge size_t to snprintf which
will WARN.

Rasmus
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