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Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2021 00:21:41 -0400
From: Rich Felker <dalias@...c.org>
To: musl@...ts.openwall.com
Cc: Alyssa Ross <hi@...ssa.is>
Subject: Re: [PATCH musl v2 3/3] mntent: fix parsing lines with
optional fields
On Wed, Sep 15, 2021 at 10:11:55PM +0000, Alyssa Ross wrote:
> According to fstab(5), the last two fields are optional, but this
> wasn't accepted by Musl. After this change, only the first field is
> required, which matches Glibc's behaviour.
>
> Using sscanf as before, it would have been impossible to differentiate
> between 0 fields and 4 fields, because sscanf would have returned 0 in
> both cases due to the use of assignment suppression and %n for the
> string fields (which is important to avoid copying any strings). So
> instead, before calling sscanf, initialize every string to the empty
> string, and then we can check which strings are empty afterwards to
> know how many fields were matched.
> ---
>
> We could also be stricter about it, and enforce that the first four
> fields are present, since the man page says only the last two are
> optional. Doing that would be a simple change of checking for the
> presence of mnt_opts instead of mnt_fsname at the end of my patch.
>
> v2: don't change n from int to size_t
>
> src/misc/mntent.c | 18 +++++++++++++-----
> 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/src/misc/mntent.c b/src/misc/mntent.c
> index eabb8200..238a0efd 100644
> --- a/src/misc/mntent.c
> +++ b/src/misc/mntent.c
> @@ -21,7 +21,8 @@ int endmntent(FILE *f)
>
> struct mntent *getmntent_r(FILE *f, struct mntent *mnt, char *linebuf, int buflen)
> {
> - int cnt, n[8], use_internal = (linebuf == SENTINEL);
> + int n[8], use_internal = (linebuf == SENTINEL);
> + size_t len, i;
>
> mnt->mnt_freq = 0;
> mnt->mnt_passno = 0;
> @@ -39,10 +40,14 @@ struct mntent *getmntent_r(FILE *f, struct mntent *mnt, char *linebuf, int bufle
> errno = ERANGE;
> return 0;
> }
> - cnt = sscanf(linebuf, " %n%*s%n %n%*s%n %n%*s%n %n%*s%n %d %d",
> - n, n+1, n+2, n+3, n+4, n+5, n+6, n+7,
> - &mnt->mnt_freq, &mnt->mnt_passno);
> - } while (cnt < 2 || linebuf[n[0]] == '#');
> +
> + len = strlen(linebuf);
> + for (i = 0; i < sizeof n / sizeof *n; i++) n[i] = len;
> + if (sscanf(linebuf, " %n%*s%n %n%*s%n %n%*s%n %n%*s%n %d %d",
> + n, n+1, n+2, n+3, n+4, n+5, n+6, n+7,
> + &mnt->mnt_freq, &mnt->mnt_passno) == EOF && ferror(f))
> + return 0;
> + } while (linebuf[n[0]] == '#');
>
> linebuf[n[1]] = 0;
> linebuf[n[3]] = 0;
> @@ -54,6 +60,9 @@ struct mntent *getmntent_r(FILE *f, struct mntent *mnt, char *linebuf, int bufle
> mnt->mnt_type = linebuf+n[4];
> mnt->mnt_opts = linebuf+n[6];
>
> + if (!*mnt->mnt_fsname)
> + return 0;
> +
> return mnt;
> }
It looks like your patch changes the behavior for malformed lines from
skipping them (and continuing to search for the next valid line) to
returning 0. Is that intentional? Maybe it's better; I'm not sure. But
won't it even cause blank lines to return 0?
A less invasive change might be adding "%1[ \t\n\v\f\r]" and a dummy
char* argument to collect the value before the " %d %d". Then you can
check for cnt<1. But I'm not sure even the 4th field should be
mandatory. This same apprach could be used to make just 3 mandatory if
desired though.
Rich
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