bin/65889: vmstat needs to use unsigned printf for forkstats

Ken Stailey kstailey at yahoo.com
Thu Apr 22 06:50:19 PDT 2004


>Number:         65889
>Category:       bin
>Synopsis:       vmstat needs to use unsigned printf for forkstats
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Thu Apr 22 06:50:18 PDT 2004
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Ken Stailey
>Release:        FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE-p3 i386
>Organization:
self
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD bsdlab.tf-md.net 5.2.1-RELEASE-p3 FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE-p3 #7: Sun Mar 21 10:31:17 EST 2004 kstailey at bsdlab.tf-md.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/BSDLAB i386


	
>Description:

<sys/vmmeter.h> uses u_int but vmsstat.c printf's with %d not %u.
Causes signed overflow on busy systems. 

>How-To-Repeat:

Run "vmstat -f" on a busy nameserver or other system with a piggy daemon
that forks a lot.

>Fix:

Index: vmstat.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /u1/cvsup/FreeBSD-cvs/root/src/src/usr.bin/vmstat/vmstat.c,v
retrieving revision 1.69
diff -u -r1.69 vmstat.c
--- vmstat.c	9 Nov 2003 20:39:56 -0000	1.69
+++ vmstat.c	22 Apr 2004 13:40:28 -0000
@@ -654,15 +654,15 @@
 {
 
 	kread(X_SUM, &sum, sizeof(sum));
-	(void)printf("%d forks, %d pages, average %.2f\n",
+	(void)printf("%u forks, %u pages, average %.2f\n",
 	    sum.v_forks, sum.v_forkpages,
 	    sum.v_forks == 0 ? 0.0 :
 	    (double)sum.v_forkpages / sum.v_forks);
-	(void)printf("%d vforks, %d pages, average %.2f\n",
+	(void)printf("%u vforks, %u pages, average %.2f\n",
 	    sum.v_vforks, sum.v_vforkpages,
 	    sum.v_vforks == 0 ? 0.0 :
 	    (double)sum.v_vforkpages / sum.v_vforks);
-	(void)printf("%d rforks, %d pages, average %.2f\n",
+	(void)printf("%u rforks, %u pages, average %.2f\n",
 	    sum.v_rforks, sum.v_rforkpages,
 	    sum.v_rforks == 0 ? 0.0 :
 	    (double)sum.v_rforkpages / sum.v_rforks);
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