Re: [PATCH net] tcp: switch snprintf to scnprintf

[Hangbin Liu <liuhangbin@gmail.com>]

Hi Eric,
On Thu, Nov 14, 2019 at 06:28:35AM -0800, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> 
> 
> On 11/14/19 2:28 AM, Hangbin Liu wrote:
> > snprintf returns the number of chars that would be written, not number
> > of chars that were actually written. As such, 'offs' may get larger than
> > 'tbl.maxlen', causing the 'tbl.maxlen - offs' being < 0, and since the
> > parameter is size_t, it would overflow.
> > 
> > Currently, the buffer is still enough, but for future design, use scnprintf
> > would be safer.
> >
> 
> Why is it targeting net tree ?

I though this is a small fixup. Maybe my though is not rigor enough. I don't
have much intend to net or net-next.
> 
> How have you checked that it was actually safer ?

No, this patch just from code review. I only did a test in user space
that snprintf could cause overflow. But I found some similar fixes
in kernel.

63350bdb3845 staging: vhciq_core: replace snprintf with scnprintf
37e444c8296c usb: Replace snprintf with scnprintf in gether_get_ifname
bd17cc5a20ae test_firmware: Use correct snprintf() limit
e7f7b6f38a44 scsi: lpfc: change snprintf to scnprintf for possible overflow

> 
> This looks unnecessary code churn to me, and it might hide an error in the future.

Not sure if I understand correctly, do you mean we may rely scnprintf
to much, and not set size correctly and got truncated message?
> 
> We need to properly size the output buffers before using them,
> we can not afford truncating silently the output.
> 

Yes, I agree. Just as I said, the buffer is still enough, while scnprintf
is just a safer usage compired with snprintf.

Thanks
Hangbin