Re: [PATCH v3 2/4] lib: vsprintf: Fix handling of number field widths in vsscanf

[Petr Mladek]

On Thu 2020-12-17 18:00:55, Richard Fitzgerald wrote:
> The existing code attempted to handle numbers by doing a strto[u]l(),
> ignoring the field width, and then repeatedly dividing to extract the
> field out of the full converted value. If the string contains a run of
> valid digits longer than will fit in a long or long long, this would
> overflow and no amount of dividing can recover the correct value.
> 
> This patch fixes vsscanf to obey number field widths when parsing
> the number.
> 
> A new _parse_integer_limit() is added that takes a limit for the number
> of characters to parse. The number field conversion in vsscanf is changed
> to use this new function.
> 
> If a number starts with a radix prefix, the field width  must be long
> enough for at last one digit after the prefix. If not, it will be handled
> like this:
> 
>  sscanf("0x4", "%1i", &i): i=0, scanning continues with the 'x'
>  sscanf("0x4", "%2i", &i): i=0, scanning continues with the '4'
> 
> This is consistent with the observed behaviour of userland sscanf.
> 
> Note that this patch does NOT fix the problem of a single field value
> overflowing the target type. So for example:
> 
>   sscanf("123456789abcdef", "%x", &i);
> 
> Will not produce the correct result because the value obviously overflows
> INT_MAX. But sscanf will report a successful conversion.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Richard Fitzgerald <rf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@xxxxxxxx>

Best Regards,
Petr