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 <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/md/dm-round-robin.c b/drivers/md/dm-round-robin.c
index 27f1d423b76c..6ab1192cdd5f 100644
--- a/drivers/md/dm-round-robin.c
+++ b/drivers/md/dm-round-robin.c
@@ -114,6 +114,7 @@ static int rr_add_path(struct path_selector *ps, struct dm_path *path,
 	struct selector *s = (struct selector *) ps->context;
 	struct path_info *pi;
 	unsigned repeat_count = RR_MIN_IO;
+	char dummy;
 
 	if (argc > 1) {
 		*error = "round-robin ps: incorrect number of arguments";
@@ -121,7 +122,7 @@ static int rr_add_path(struct path_selector *ps, struct dm_path *path,
 	}
 
 	/* First path argument is number of I/Os before switching path */
-	if ((argc == 1) && (sscanf(argv[0], "%u", &repeat_count) != 1)) {
+	if ((argc == 1) && (sscanf(argv[0], "%u%c", &repeat_count, &dummy) != 1)) {
 		*error = "round-robin ps: invalid repeat count";
 		return -EINVAL;
 	}