Re: [PATCH] ubifs: replace simple_strtoul() with kstrtoul()

[Zhang Zhen <zhenzhang.zhang@huawei.com>]

On 2014/5/20 14:57, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 8:53 AM, Geert Uytterhoeven
> <geert@linux-m68k.org> wrote:
>> On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 11:49 AM, Zhang Zhen <zhenzhang.zhang@huawei.com> wrote:
>>> On 2014/5/19 17:13, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
>>>> Please don't add mindless casts!
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 5:26 AM, Zhang Zhen <zhenzhang.zhang@huawei.com> wrote:
>>>>> --- a/fs/ubifs/super.c
>>>>> +++ b/fs/ubifs/super.c
>>>>> @@ -1905,6 +1905,7 @@ static struct ubi_volume_desc *open_ubi(const char *name, int mode)
>>>>>         struct ubi_volume_desc *ubi;
>>>>>         int dev, vol;
>>>>
>>>> dev is int
>>>>
>>>>>         char *endptr;
>>>>> +       int ret;
>>>>>
>>>>>         /* First, try to open using the device node path method */
>>>>>         ubi = ubi_open_volume_path(name, mode);
>>>>> @@ -1922,7 +1923,10 @@ static struct ubi_volume_desc *open_ubi(const char *name, int mode)
>>>>>         if (!isdigit(name[3]))
>>>>>                 return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
>>>>>
>>>>> -       dev = simple_strtoul(name + 3, &endptr, 0);
>>>>> +       endptr = (char *)name + 3;
>>>>> +       ret = kstrtoul(endptr, 0, (unsigned long *)&dev);
>>>>
>>>> On 64-bit, long is 64-bit, hence this will write beyond dev and will corrupt
>>>> the stack.
>>>>
>>> Yeah, you are right. This really may write beyond dev.
>>>
>>> The kstrtoul(const char *s, unsigned int base, unsigned long *res) only accept unsigned long
>>> pointer as the third parameter.
>>> And the original function simple_strtoul() returns unsigned long type value.
>>> It is also cast. So this may not corrupt the stack.
>>
>> That's not a cast, but an implicit conversion (which may truncate the
>> value from 64-bit to 32-bit).
>>
>>> Or do you have any better suggestion about this?
>>
>> Change dev and vol to long?
> 
> Oh, there exists a whole range of kstrto*() functions.
> 
> So you can just use kstrtoint().
> 
Hi Geert,

Thanks for your suggestion, i will send the version2 out.
> Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
> 
>                         Geert
> 
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