[PATCH v3 3/3] lib/string_helpers.c: Change semantics of string_escape_mem

[Rasmus Villemoes]

The current semantics of string_escape_mem are inadequate for one of
its current users, vsnprintf(). If that is to honour its contract, it
must know how much space would be needed for the entire escaped
buffer, and string_escape_mem provides no way of obtaining that (short
of allocating a large enough buffer (~4 times input string) to let it
play with, and that's definitely a big no-no inside vsnprintf).

So change the semantics for string_escape_mem to be more
snprintf-like: Return the size of the output that would be generated
if the destination buffer was big enough, but of course still only
write to the part of dst it is allowed to, and don't do
'\0'-termination. It is then up to the caller to detect whether output
was truncated and to append a '\0' if desired. Also, we must output
partial escape sequences, otherwise a call such as snprintf(buf, 3,
"%1pE", "\123") would cause printf to write a \0 to buf[2] but leaving
buf[0] and buf[1] with whatever they previously contained.

This also fixes a bug in the escaped_string() helper function, which
used to unconditionally pass a length of "end-buf" to
string_escape_mem(); since the latter doesn't check osz for being
insanely large, it would happily write to dst. For example,
kasprintf(GFP_KERNEL, "something and then %pE", ...); is an easy way
to trigger an oops.

In test-string_helpers.c, I removed the now meaningless -ENOMEM test,
and replaced it with testing for getting the expected return value
even if the buffer is too small. Also ensure that nothing is written
when osz == 0.

In net/sunrpc/cache.c, I think qword_add still has the same
semantics. Someone should definitely double-check this.

Signed-off-by: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 include/linux/string_helpers.h |  8 ++++----
 lib/string_helpers.c           | 39 +++++++--------------------------------
 lib/test-string_helpers.c      | 35 +++++++++++++++--------------------
 lib/vsprintf.c                 |  8 ++++++--
 net/sunrpc/cache.c             |  8 +++++---
 5 files changed, 37 insertions(+), 61 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/string_helpers.h b/include/linux/string_helpers.h
index 6eb567ac56bc..38a2a6f1fc76 100644
--- a/include/linux/string_helpers.h
+++ b/include/linux/string_helpers.h
@@ -47,22 +47,22 @@ static inline int string_unescape_any_inplace(char *buf)
 #define ESCAPE_ANY_NP		(ESCAPE_ANY | ESCAPE_NP)
 #define ESCAPE_HEX		0x20
 
-int string_escape_mem(const char *src, size_t isz, char **dst, size_t osz,
+int string_escape_mem(const char *src, size_t isz, char *dst, size_t osz,
 		unsigned int flags, const char *esc);
 
 static inline int string_escape_mem_any_np(const char *src, size_t isz,
-		char **dst, size_t osz, const char *esc)
+		char *dst, size_t osz, const char *esc)
 {
 	return string_escape_mem(src, isz, dst, osz, ESCAPE_ANY_NP, esc);
 }
 
-static inline int string_escape_str(const char *src, char **dst, size_t sz,
+static inline int string_escape_str(const char *src, char *dst, size_t sz,
 		unsigned int flags, const char *esc)
 {
 	return string_escape_mem(src, strlen(src), dst, sz, flags, esc);
 }
 
-static inline int string_escape_str_any_np(const char *src, char **dst,
+static inline int string_escape_str_any_np(const char *src, char *dst,
 		size_t sz, const char *esc)
 {
 	return string_escape_str(src, dst, sz, ESCAPE_ANY_NP, esc);
diff --git a/lib/string_helpers.c b/lib/string_helpers.c
index 7e2fef1eb40e..df7fda90b333 100644
--- a/lib/string_helpers.c
+++ b/lib/string_helpers.c
@@ -278,14 +278,11 @@ static bool escape_space(unsigned char c, char **dst, char *end)
 		return false;
 	}
 
-	if (out + 1 >= end)
-		goto skip;
 	if (out + 0 < end)
 		out[0] = '\\';
 	if (out + 1 < end)
 		out[1] = to;
 
-skip:
 	*dst = out + 2;
 	return true;
 }
@@ -309,14 +306,11 @@ static bool escape_special(unsigned char c, char **dst, char *end)
 		return false;
 	}
 
-	if (out + 1 >= end)
-		goto skip;
 	if (out + 0 < end)
 		out[0] = '\\';
 	if (out + 1 < end)
 		out[1] = to;
 
-skip:
 	*dst = out + 2;
 	return true;
 }
@@ -328,14 +322,11 @@ static bool escape_null(unsigned char c, char **dst, char *end)
 	if (c)
 		return false;
 
-	if (out + 1 >= end)
-		goto skip;
 	if (out + 0 < end)
 		out[0] = '\\';
 	if (out + 1 < end)
 		out[1] = '0';
 
-skip:
 	*dst = out + 2;
 	return true;
 }
@@ -344,8 +335,6 @@ static bool escape_octal(unsigned char c, char **dst, char *end)
 {
 	char *out = *dst;
 
-	if (out + 3 >= end)
-		goto skip;
 	if (out + 0 < end)
 		out[0] = '\\';
 	if (out + 1 < end)
@@ -355,7 +344,6 @@ static bool escape_octal(unsigned char c, char **dst, char *end)
 	if (out + 3 < end)
 		out[3] = ((c >> 0) & 0x07) + '0';
 
-skip:
 	*dst = out + 4;
 	return true;
 }
@@ -364,8 +352,6 @@ static bool escape_hex(unsigned char c, char **dst, char *end)
 {
 	char *out = *dst;
 
-	if (out + 3 >= end)
-		goto skip;
 	if (out + 0 < end)
 		out[0] = '\\';
 	if (out + 1 < end)
@@ -375,7 +361,6 @@ static bool escape_hex(unsigned char c, char **dst, char *end)
 	if (out + 3 < end)
 		out[3] = hex_asc_lo(c);
 
-skip:
 	*dst = out + 4;
 	return true;
 }
@@ -429,20 +414,17 @@ skip:
  * it if needs.
  *
  * Return:
- * The amount of the characters processed to the destination buffer, or
- * %-ENOMEM if the size of buffer is not enough to put an escaped character is
- * returned.
- *
- * Even in the case of error @dst pointer will be updated to point to the byte
- * after the last processed character.
+ * The total size of the escaped output that would be generated for
+ * the given input and flags. To check whether the output was
+ * truncated, compare the return value to osz. There is room left in
+ * dst for a '\0' terminator if and only if ret < osz.
  */
-int string_escape_mem(const char *src, size_t isz, char **dst, size_t osz,
+int string_escape_mem(const char *src, size_t isz, char *dst, size_t osz,
 		      unsigned int flags, const char *esc)
 {
-	char *p = *dst;
+	char *p = dst;
 	char *end = p + osz;
 	bool is_dict = esc && *esc;
-	int ret;
 
 	while (isz--) {
 		unsigned char c = *src++;
@@ -482,13 +464,6 @@ int string_escape_mem(const char *src, size_t isz, char **dst, size_t osz,
 		escape_passthrough(c, &p, end);
 	}
 
-	if (p > end) {
-		*dst = end;
-		return -ENOMEM;
-	}
-
-	ret = p - *dst;
-	*dst = p;
-	return ret;
+	return p - dst;
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(string_escape_mem);
diff --git a/lib/test-string_helpers.c b/lib/test-string_helpers.c
index ab0d30e1e18f..5f759c3c2f60 100644
--- a/lib/test-string_helpers.c
+++ b/lib/test-string_helpers.c
@@ -264,12 +264,12 @@ static __init void test_string_escape(const char *name,
 				      const struct test_string_2 *s2,
 				      unsigned int flags, const char *esc)
 {
-	int q_real = 512;
-	char *out_test = kmalloc(q_real, GFP_KERNEL);
-	char *out_real = kmalloc(q_real, GFP_KERNEL);
+	size_t out_size = 512;
+	char *out_test = kmalloc(out_size, GFP_KERNEL);
+	char *out_real = kmalloc(out_size, GFP_KERNEL);
 	char *in = kmalloc(256, GFP_KERNEL);
-	char *buf = out_real;
 	int p = 0, q_test = 0;
+	int q_real;
 
 	if (!out_test || !out_real || !in)
 		goto out;
@@ -301,29 +301,26 @@ static __init void test_string_escape(const char *name,
 		q_test += len;
 	}
 
-	q_real = string_escape_mem(in, p, &buf, q_real, flags, esc);
+	q_real = string_escape_mem(in, p, out_real, out_size, flags, esc);
 
 	test_string_check_buf(name, flags, in, p, out_real, q_real, out_test,
 			      q_test);
+
+	memset(out_real, 'Z', out_size);
+	q_real = string_escape_mem(in, p, out_real, 0, flags, esc);
+	if (q_real != q_test)
+		pr_warn("Test '%s' failed: flags = %u, osz = 0, expected %d, got %d\n",
+			name, flags, q_test, q_real);
+	if (memchr_inv(out_real, 'Z', out_size))
+		pr_warn("Test '%s' failed: osz = 0 but string_escape_mem wrote to the buffer\n",
+			name);
+
 out:
 	kfree(in);
 	kfree(out_real);
 	kfree(out_test);
 }
 
-static __init void test_string_escape_nomem(void)
-{
-	char *in = "\eb \\C\007\"\x90\r]";
-	char out[64], *buf = out;
-	int rc = -ENOMEM, ret;
-
-	ret = string_escape_str_any_np(in, &buf, strlen(in), NULL);
-	if (ret == rc)
-		return;
-
-	pr_err("Test 'escape nomem' failed: got %d instead of %d\n", ret, rc);
-}
-
 static int __init test_string_helpers_init(void)
 {
 	unsigned int i;
@@ -342,8 +339,6 @@ static int __init test_string_helpers_init(void)
 	for (i = 0; i < (ESCAPE_ANY_NP | ESCAPE_HEX) + 1; i++)
 		test_string_escape("escape 1", escape1, i, TEST_STRING_2_DICT_1);
 
-	test_string_escape_nomem();
-
 	return -EINVAL;
 }
 module_init(test_string_helpers_init);
diff --git a/lib/vsprintf.c b/lib/vsprintf.c
index 3568e3906777..58e1193eaa4b 100644
--- a/lib/vsprintf.c
+++ b/lib/vsprintf.c
@@ -1159,8 +1159,12 @@ char *escaped_string(char *buf, char *end, u8 *addr, struct printf_spec spec,
 
 	len = spec.field_width < 0 ? 1 : spec.field_width;
 
-	/* Ignore the error. We print as many characters as we can */
-	string_escape_mem(addr, len, &buf, end - buf, flags, NULL);
+	/*
+	 * string_escape_mem writes as many characters as it can to
+	 * the given buffer, and returns the total size of the output
+	 * had the buffer been big enough.
+	 */
+	buf += string_escape_mem(addr, len, buf, buf < end ? end - buf : 0, flags, NULL);
 
 	return buf;
 }
diff --git a/net/sunrpc/cache.c b/net/sunrpc/cache.c
index 33fb105d4352..22c4418057f4 100644
--- a/net/sunrpc/cache.c
+++ b/net/sunrpc/cache.c
@@ -1068,12 +1068,14 @@ void qword_add(char **bpp, int *lp, char *str)
 {
 	char *bp = *bpp;
 	int len = *lp;
-	int ret;
+	int ret, written;
 
 	if (len < 0) return;
 
-	ret = string_escape_str(str, &bp, len, ESCAPE_OCTAL, "\\ \n\t");
-	if (ret < 0 || ret == len)
+	ret = string_escape_str(str, bp, len, ESCAPE_OCTAL, "\\ \n\t");
+	written = min(ret, len);
+	bp += written;
+	if (ret >= len)
 		len = -1;
 	else {
 		len -= ret;
-- 
2.1.3

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