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Date: Thu, 31 May 2018 22:44:42 +0200
From: Natanael Copa <ncopa@...inelinux.org>
To: Andrei Vagin <avagin@...tuozzo.com>
Cc: musl@...ts.openwall.com, Laurent Bercot <ska-dietlibc@...rnet.org>
Subject: Re: Re: [PATCH] scanf: handle the L modifier for integers
On Thu, 31 May 2018 12:00:22 -0700
Andrei Vagin <avagin@...tuozzo.com> wrote:
> >>Without this patch, ret will be 1 and mask will be 0. It is obviously
> >>incorrect. According to the man page, L should work like ll:
> >>
> >>L Indicates that the conversion will be either e, f, or g and the
> >> next pointer is a pointer to long double or the conversion will
> >> be d, i, o, u, or x and the next pointer is a pointer to long
> >> long.
> >
> > This is a GNU extension. POSIX states that L is only valid before
> >a floating-point conversion specifier:
> >
> >L
> > Specifies that a following a, A, e, E, f, F, g, or G conversion
> >specifier
> > applies to an argument with type pointer to long double.
> >
> > from
> >http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/scanf.html
> >
> > So, it is valid for musl not to accept %Lx.
> > Now, the argument that it's a good idea to align musl's behaviour to
> >glibc's whenever possible is a sensible one. But it's a decision for
> >the musl authors to make, and the pros and cons need to be carefully
> >balanced; musl's current behaviour is not _incorrect_.
>
> It is incorrect, because scanf() has to return 0, or it has to handle the
> L modifier. Currently it doesn't handle L and return 1, so the
> application can't detect this issue.
That sounds like a bug in musl libc.
> I would prefer a case when musl works like glibc, if there are not any
> reason to not to do that. For example, now Alpine Linux is very popular
> and there are a lot of packages. In many cases, a maintainer, who adds a
> new package, fixes compile-time errors and doesn't run any tests.
> A target application can work differently with musl comparing with glibc
> due to this sort of issues.
FreeBSD man page says:
L Indicates that the conversion will be one of a, e, f, or g and
the next pointer is a pointer to long double.
NetBSD man page says:
L Indicates that the conversion will be efg and the next pointer is
a pointer to long double.
OpenBSD man page says:
L
Indicates that the conversion will be one of efg and the next pointer is a pointer to long double.
So the application will break on most (every) system that is not GNU
libc. It would be better to fix the application in this case:
char str[] = "sigmask: 0x200";
long long mask = 0;
int ret;
#if defined(__GLIBC__)
ret = sscanf(str, "sigmask: %Lx", &mask));
#else
ret = sscanf(str, "sigmask: %llx", &mask));
#endif
printf("%d %llx\n", ret, mask);
Or just use %llx which is POSIX and should work everywhere.
That said, those things are tricky to detect at compile time as you
mentioned and they are tricky to detect with configure scripts that
works with cross compilation. Also many developers seems to think that
Linux == glibc so they only read the GNU manuals, so yeah, implement
glibc behavior here seems like a good idea, unless someone else has a
brilliant idea how to catch this at compile time.
In any case, I think the application should be fixed too.
-nc
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