From 31998ef19385c944600d9a981b96252f98204bee Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mikulas Patocka Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2012 18:41:26 +0100 Subject: dm: reject trailing characters in sccanf input Device mapper uses sscanf to convert arguments to numbers. The problem is that the way we use it ignores additional unmatched characters in the scanned string. For example, this `if (sscanf(string, "%d", &number) == 1)' will match a number, but also it will match number with some garbage appended, like "123abc". As a result, device mapper accepts garbage after some numbers. For example the command `dmsetup create vg1-new --table "0 16384 linear 254:1bla 34816bla"' will pass without an error. This patch fixes all sscanf uses in device mapper. It appends "%c" with a pointer to a dummy character variable to every sscanf statement. The construct `if (sscanf(string, "%d%c", &number, &dummy) == 1)' succeeds only if string is a null-terminated number (optionally preceded by some whitespace characters). If there is some character appended after the number, sscanf matches "%c", writes the character to the dummy variable and returns 2. We check the return value for 1 and consequently reject numbers with some garbage appended. Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka Acked-by: Mike Snitzer Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon --- drivers/md/dm-queue-length.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'drivers/md/dm-queue-length.c') diff --git a/drivers/md/dm-queue-length.c b/drivers/md/dm-queue-length.c index 03a837aa5ce..3941fae0de9 100644 --- a/drivers/md/dm-queue-length.c +++ b/drivers/md/dm-queue-length.c @@ -112,6 +112,7 @@ static int ql_add_path(struct path_selector *ps, struct dm_path *path, struct selector *s = ps->context; struct path_info *pi; unsigned repeat_count = QL_MIN_IO; + char dummy; /* * Arguments: [] @@ -123,7 +124,7 @@ static int ql_add_path(struct path_selector *ps, struct dm_path *path, return -EINVAL; } - if ((argc == 1) && (sscanf(argv[0], "%u", &repeat_count) != 1)) { + if ((argc == 1) && (sscanf(argv[0], "%u%c", &repeat_count, &dummy) != 1)) { *error = "queue-length ps: invalid repeat count"; return -EINVAL; } -- cgit v1.2.3-18-g5258