From: David Carlier <devnexen@gmail.com>
To: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>, David Vernet <void@manifault.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, David Carlier <devnexen@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH] tools/sched_ext: fix strtoul() misuse in scx_hotplug_seq()
Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2026 18:43:09 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260227184309.13183-1-devnexen@gmail.com> (raw)
scx_hotplug_seq() uses strtoul() but validates the result with a
negative check (val < 0), which can never be true for an unsigned
return value.
Use the endptr mechanism to verify the entire string was consumed,
and check errno == ERANGE for overflow detection.
Signed-off-by: David Carlier <devnexen@gmail.com>
---
tools/sched_ext/include/scx/compat.h | 7 +++++--
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/tools/sched_ext/include/scx/compat.h b/tools/sched_ext/include/scx/compat.h
index 8b4897fc8b99..edccc99c7294 100644
--- a/tools/sched_ext/include/scx/compat.h
+++ b/tools/sched_ext/include/scx/compat.h
@@ -125,6 +125,7 @@ static inline long scx_hotplug_seq(void)
{
int fd;
char buf[32];
+ char *endptr;
ssize_t len;
long val;
@@ -137,8 +138,10 @@ static inline long scx_hotplug_seq(void)
buf[len] = 0;
close(fd);
- val = strtoul(buf, NULL, 10);
- SCX_BUG_ON(val < 0, "invalid num hotplug events: %lu", val);
+ errno = 0;
+ val = strtoul(buf, &endptr, 10);
+ SCX_BUG_ON(errno == ERANGE || endptr == buf ||
+ (*endptr != '\n' && *endptr != '\0'), "invalid num hotplug events: %ld", val);
return val;
}
--
2.51.0
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