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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>

             reply	other threads:[~2026-03-20  3:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-03-20  3:52 Masami Hiramatsu (Google) [this message]
2026-03-20  3:56 ` [PATCH 0/1] lib/vsprintf: Fixes size check Masami Hiramatsu

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