[PATCH 03/23] tools lib api: Fix missing null termination in filename__read_int/ull()

From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

Date: Wed Jun 10 2026 - 15:55:51 EST


From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx>

filename__read_int() passes a stack buffer to read() using the full
sizeof(line) and then hands it to atoi() without null-terminating.
If a sysfs file fills the 64-byte buffer exactly, atoi() reads past
the array into uninitialized stack memory.

filename__read_ull_base() has the same issue with strtoull().

Fix both by reading sizeof(line) - 1 bytes and explicitly
null-terminating after a successful read.

Fixes: 3a351127cbc682c3 ("tools lib fs: Adopt filename__read_int from tools/perf/")
Reported-by: sashiko-bot <sashiko-bot@xxxxxxxxxx>
Assisted-by: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
tools/lib/api/fs/fs.c | 10 ++++++++--
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/lib/api/fs/fs.c b/tools/lib/api/fs/fs.c
index edec23406dbc619f..3cc302d4c47b1669 100644
--- a/tools/lib/api/fs/fs.c
+++ b/tools/lib/api/fs/fs.c
@@ -294,11 +294,14 @@ int filename__read_int(const char *filename, int *value)
{
char line[64];
int fd = open(filename, O_RDONLY), err = -1;
+ ssize_t n;

if (fd < 0)
return -errno;

- if (read(fd, line, sizeof(line)) > 0) {
+ n = read(fd, line, sizeof(line) - 1);
+ if (n > 0) {
+ line[n] = '\0';
*value = atoi(line);
err = 0;
}
@@ -312,11 +315,14 @@ static int filename__read_ull_base(const char *filename,
{
char line[64];
int fd = open(filename, O_RDONLY), err = -1;
+ ssize_t n;

if (fd < 0)
return -errno;

- if (read(fd, line, sizeof(line)) > 0) {
+ n = read(fd, line, sizeof(line) - 1);
+ if (n > 0) {
+ line[n] = '\0';
*value = strtoull(line, NULL, base);
if (*value != ULLONG_MAX)
err = 0;
--
2.54.0