Re: [PATCH] lib/vsprintf.c: wrong conversion function used

From: Yi Yang
Date: Sun Aug 10 2008 - 23:26:51 EST


Swen, your fix is just partly correct, it'll has a big problem for strict_strtoul, because val is of long type,
but you patch will result in long long return type, the below patch is a correct fix.



Signed-off-by: Yi Yang <yi.y.yang@xxxxxxxxx>
Noticed-by: Swen Schillig <swen@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
vsprintf.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/lib/vsprintf.c b/lib/vsprintf.c
index 1dc2d1d..d8d1d11 100644
--- a/lib/vsprintf.c
+++ b/lib/vsprintf.c
@@ -220,7 +220,7 @@ int strict_strtou##type(const char *cp, unsigned int base, valtype *res)\
if (len == 0) \
return -EINVAL; \
\
- val = simple_strtoul(cp, &tail, base); \
+ val = simple_strtou##type(cp, &tail, base); \
if ((*tail == '\0') || \
((len == (size_t)(tail - cp) + 1) && (*tail == '\n'))) {\
*res = val; \


On Thu, 2008-08-07 at 11:24 +0200, Swen Schillig wrote:
> From: Swen Schillig <swen@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> The macro define_strict_strtoux() is using the simple_strtoul ()
> function as opposed to the simple_strtoull() function.
> This leads to false conversions on non-64bit
> machines (here 31bit System z).
>
> The following patch fixes the issue introduced by
>
> commit 06b2a76d25d3cfbd14680021c1d356c91be6904e
> Author: Yi Yang <yi.y.yang@xxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Fri Feb 8 04:21:57 2008 -0800
>
> Signed-off-by: Swen Schillig <swen@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> lib/vsprintf.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> Index: HEAD/lib/vsprintf.c
> ===================================================================
> --- HEAD.orig/lib/vsprintf.c
> +++ HEAD/lib/vsprintf.c
> @@ -220,7 +220,7 @@ int strict_strtou##type(const char *cp,
> if (len == 0) \
> return -EINVAL; \
> \
> - val = simple_strtoul(cp, &tail, base); \
> + val = simple_strtoull(cp, &tail, base); \
> if ((*tail == '\0') || \
> ((len == (size_t)(tail - cp) + 1) && (*tail == '\n'))) {\
> *res = val; \

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