Re: [PATCH] ocfs2: fix snprintf() checking

Joseph Qi
2021-05-11T12:54:58Z

On 5/11/21 3:16 PM, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> The snprintf() function returns the number of bytes which would have
> been printed if the buffer was large enough. In other words it can
> return ">= remain" but this code assumes it returns "== remain".
>
> The run time impact of this bug is not very severe. The next iteration
> through the loop would trigger a WARN() when we pass a negative limit
> to snprintf(). We would then return success instead of -E2BIG.
>
> The kernel implementation of snprintf() will never return negatives so
> there is no need to check and I have deleted that dead code.
>
> Fixes: a860f6eb4c6a ("ocfs2: sysfile interfaces for online file check")
> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>

Looks good. But the last 2 sections are introduced by:
74ae4e104dfc ocfs2: Create stack glue sysfs files.

With 'Fixes' tag updated,
Reviewed-by: Joseph Qi <joseph.qi@linux.alibaba.com>

> ---
> fs/ocfs2/filecheck.c | 6 +-----
> fs/ocfs2/stackglue.c | 8 ++------
> 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/fs/ocfs2/filecheck.c b/fs/ocfs2/filecheck.c
> index 90b8d300c1ee..de56e6231af8 100644
> --- a/fs/ocfs2/filecheck.c
> +++ b/fs/ocfs2/filecheck.c
> @@ -326,11 +326,7 @@ static ssize_t ocfs2_filecheck_attr_show(struct kobject *kobj,
> ret = snprintf(buf + total, remain, "%lu\t\t%u\t%s\n",
> p->fe_ino, p->fe_done,
> ocfs2_filecheck_error(p->fe_status));
> - if (ret < 0) {
> - total = ret;
> - break;
> - }
> - if (ret == remain) {
> + if (ret >= remain) {
> /* snprintf() didn't fit */
> total = -E2BIG;
> break;
> diff --git a/fs/ocfs2/stackglue.c b/fs/ocfs2/stackglue.c
> index d50e8b8dfea4..16f1bfc407f2 100644
> --- a/fs/ocfs2/stackglue.c
> +++ b/fs/ocfs2/stackglue.c
> @@ -500,11 +500,7 @@ static ssize_t ocfs2_loaded_cluster_plugins_show(struct kobject *kobj,
> list_for_each_entry(p, &ocfs2_stack_list, sp_list) {
> ret = snprintf(buf, remain, "%s\n",
> p->sp_name);
> - if (ret < 0) {
> - total = ret;
> - break;
> - }
> - if (ret == remain) {
> + if (ret >= remain) {
> /* snprintf() didn't fit */
> total = -E2BIG;
> break;
> @@ -531,7 +527,7 @@ static ssize_t ocfs2_active_cluster_plugin_show(struct kobject *kobj,
> if (active_stack) {
> ret = snprintf(buf, PAGE_SIZE, "%s\n",
> active_stack->sp_name);
> - if (ret == PAGE_SIZE)
> + if (ret >= PAGE_SIZE)
> ret = -E2BIG;
> }
> spin_unlock(&ocfs2_stack_lock);
>