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, 5 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/md/dm-crypt.c b/drivers/md/dm-crypt.c
index 87de0d6..3f06df5 100644
--- a/drivers/md/dm-crypt.c
+++ b/drivers/md/dm-crypt.c
@@ -1415,6 +1415,7 @@ static int crypt_ctr_cipher(struct dm_target *ti,
 	char *tmp, *cipher, *chainmode, *ivmode, *ivopts, *keycount;
 	char *cipher_api = NULL;
 	int cpu, ret = -EINVAL;
+	char dummy;
 
 	/* Convert to crypto api definition? */
 	if (strchr(cipher_in, '(')) {
@@ -1436,7 +1437,7 @@ static int crypt_ctr_cipher(struct dm_target *ti,
 
 	if (!keycount)
 		cc->tfms_count = 1;
-	else if (sscanf(keycount, "%u", &cc->tfms_count) != 1 ||
+	else if (sscanf(keycount, "%u%c", &cc->tfms_count, &dummy) != 1 ||
 		 !is_power_of_2(cc->tfms_count)) {
 		ti->error = "Bad cipher key count specification";
 		return -EINVAL;
@@ -1581,6 +1582,7 @@ static int crypt_ctr(struct dm_target *ti, unsigned int argc, char **argv)
 	int ret;
 	struct dm_arg_set as;
 	const char *opt_string;
+	char dummy;
 
 	static struct dm_arg _args[] = {
 		{0, 1, "Invalid number of feature args"},
@@ -1638,7 +1640,7 @@ static int crypt_ctr(struct dm_target *ti, unsigned int argc, char **argv)
 	}
 
 	ret = -EINVAL;
-	if (sscanf(argv[2], "%llu", &tmpll) != 1) {
+	if (sscanf(argv[2], "%llu%c", &tmpll, &dummy) != 1) {
 		ti->error = "Invalid iv_offset sector";
 		goto bad;
 	}
@@ -1649,7 +1651,7 @@ static int crypt_ctr(struct dm_target *ti, unsigned int argc, char **argv)
 		goto bad;
 	}
 
-	if (sscanf(argv[4], "%llu", &tmpll) != 1) {
+	if (sscanf(argv[4], "%llu%c", &tmpll, &dummy) != 1) {
 		ti->error = "Invalid device sector";
 		goto bad;
 	}