Re: [RFC 0/3] eliminate potential race in string() (was: [PATCH] string: Improve the generic strlcpy() implementation)

[Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>]

* Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk> wrote:

> On Fri, Oct 09 2015, Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk> wrote:
> 
> > It's hard not to agree with the overall "let's make it more robust if it
> > can be done sanely+cheaply+cleanly". I was a bit skeptical about whether
> > those three requirements could be met, since we'd have to do
> > byte-by-byte traversal of the string, maybe-copying it to the output as
> > we go along, but then right-alignment would require us to do a memmove,
> > but not before we've done some complicated bookkeeping
> > exercise. However, now that I read the source again, it seems that Al
> > Viro already did that exercise when he added dentry(). So maybe it's
> > doable without a net increase in LOC.
> 
> Something like this. The net increase is because I added a
> comment. Passes the new printf test suite, but I'm not sure that's
> thorough enough yet - still, it's better than nothing. There's also this
> small bonus:
> 
> $ scripts/bloat-o-meter /tmp/vsprintf.o.{old,new}
> add/remove: 1/0 grow/shrink: 0/2 up/down: 178/-245 (-67)
> function                                     old     new   delta
> widen_string.isra                              -     178    +178
> string.isra                                  186     109     -77
> dentry_name.isra                             358     190    -168
> 
> 
> Rasmus Villemoes (3):
>   lib/vsprintf.c: pull out padding code from dentry_name()
>   lib/vsprintf.c: move string() below widen_string()
>   lib/vsprintf.c: eliminate potential race in string()
> 
>  lib/vsprintf.c | 98 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------------------------
>  1 file changed, 52 insertions(+), 46 deletions(-)

Looks good to me!

Thanks,

	Ingo