lib: vsprintf: Fix handling of number field widths in vsscanf

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.

Note that where a very large number is used to mean "unlimited", the value
INT_MAX is used for consistency with the behaviour of vsnprintf().

Signed-off-by: Richard Fitzgerald <rf@opensource.cirrus.com>
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210514161206.30821-2-rf@opensource.cirrus.com

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/lib/kstrtox.h b/lib/kstrtox.h
index 3b4637bcd254..158c400ca865 100644
--- a/lib/kstrtox.h
+++ b/lib/kstrtox.h
@@ -4,6 +4,8 @@
 
 #define KSTRTOX_OVERFLOW	(1U << 31)
 const char *_parse_integer_fixup_radix(const char *s, unsigned int *base);
+unsigned int _parse_integer_limit(const char *s, unsigned int base, unsigned long long *res,
+				  size_t max_chars);
 unsigned int _parse_integer(const char *s, unsigned int base, unsigned long long *res);
 
 #endif