From: "Masami Hiramatsu (Google)" <mhiramat@kernel.org>
To: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>,
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>,
Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@chromium.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
David Laight <david.laight.linux@gmail.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 0/1] lib/vsprintf: Fixes size check
Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2026 12:52:14 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <177397873418.32202.13853628019974387241.stgit@devnote2> (raw)
Hi,
Here is a pair of patches to fix vsnprintf().
- Fix to limit the size of width and precision.
- Warn if the return size is over INT_MAX.
Recently we discussed snprintf() usage in bootconfig and found snprintf()
design has a problem[1]. It returns the required or printed size in 'int'
but the maxlen is passed by 'size_t'. The maxlen is already limited by
INT_MAX, but if the expected print size becomes bigger than INT_MAX,
it can return negative value. We also found width and precision size check
does not work.
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260317121507.30735331@gandalf.local.home/
Thank you,
---
Masami Hiramatsu (Google) (2):
lib/vsprintf: Fix to check field_width and precision
lib/vsprintf: Limit the returning size to INT_MAX
lib/vsprintf.c | 8 +++++---
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
--
Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>
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