Re: [PATCH V2] sysfs: Add sysfs_emit and sysfs_emit_at to format sysfs output

[Joe Perches]

On Sat, 2020-08-29 at 16:48 -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> Output defects can exist in sysfs content using sprintf and snprintf.
> 
> sprintf does not know the PAGE_SIZE maximum of the temporary buffer
> used for outputting sysfs content and it's possible to overrun the
> PAGE_SIZE buffer length.
> 
> Add a generic sysfs_emit function that knows that the size of the
> temporary buffer and ensures that no overrun is done.
> 
> Add a generic sysfs_emit_at function that can be used in multiple
> call situations that also ensures that no overrun is done.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> 
> V2: Simplify sysfs_emit and add sysfs_emit_at
>     Include Documentation change

Greg?  Rafael? Thoughts on this?

One additional possibility is to validate the buf address to be
page aligned by adding a test of buf and offset_in_page(buf)

ie: WARN(!buf || offset_in_page(buf), etc...

Output defects can exist in sysfs content using sprintf and snprintf.

sprintf does not know the PAGE_SIZE maximum of the temporary buffer
used for outputting sysfs content and it's possible to overrun the
PAGE_SIZE buffer length.

Add a generic sysfs_emit function that knows that the size of the
temporary buffer and ensures that no overrun is done.

Add a generic sysfs_emit_at function that can be used in multiple
call situations that also ensures that no overrun is done.

Validate the output buffer argument to be page aligned.
Validate the offset len argument to be within the PAGE_SIZE buf.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 fs/sysfs/file.c | 55 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 55 insertions(+)

diff --git a/fs/sysfs/file.c b/fs/sysfs/file.c
index eb6897ab78e7..96d0da65e088 100644
--- a/fs/sysfs/file.c
+++ b/fs/sysfs/file.c
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@
 #include <linux/list.h>
 #include <linux/mutex.h>
 #include <linux/seq_file.h>
+#include <linux/mm.h>
 
 #include "sysfs.h"
 
@@ -707,3 +708,57 @@ int sysfs_change_owner(struct kobject *kobj, kuid_t kuid, kgid_t kgid)
 	return 0;
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(sysfs_change_owner);
+
+/**
+ *	sysfs_emit - scnprintf equivalent, aware of PAGE_SIZE buffer.
+ *	@buf:	start of PAGE_SIZE buffer.
+ *	@fmt:	format
+ *	@...:	optional arguments to @format
+ *
+ *
+ * Returns number of characters written to @buf.
+ */
+int sysfs_emit(char *buf, const char *fmt, ...)
+{
+	va_list args;
+	int len;
+
+	if (WARN(!buf || offset_in_page(buf),
+		 "invalid sysfs_emit: buf:%p\n", buf))
+		return 0;
+
+	va_start(args, fmt);
+	len = vscnprintf(buf, PAGE_SIZE, fmt, args);
+	va_end(args);
+
+	return len;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(sysfs_emit);
+
+/**
+ *	sysfs_emit_at - scnprintf equivalent, aware of PAGE_SIZE buffer.
+ *	@buf:	start of PAGE_SIZE buffer.
+ *	@at:	offset in @buf to start write in bytes
+ *		@at must be >= 0 && < PAGE_SIZE
+ *	@fmt:	format
+ *	@...:	optional arguments to @fmt
+ *
+ *
+ * Returns number of characters written starting at &@buf[@at].
+ */
+int sysfs_emit_at(char *buf, int at, const char *fmt, ...)
+{
+	va_list args;
+	int len;
+
+	if (WARN(!buf || offset_in_page(buf) || at < 0 || at >= PAGE_SIZE,
+		 "invalid sysfs_emit_at: buf:%p at:%d\n", buf, at))
+		return 0;
+
+	va_start(args, fmt);
+	len = vscnprintf(buf + at, PAGE_SIZE - at, fmt, args);
+	va_end(args);
+
+	return len;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(sysfs_emit_at);