issue with devstat_buildmatch(3) and certain strings

Alexander Best arundel at freebsd.org
Fri Apr 1 11:49:40 UTC 2011


On Fri Apr  1 11, Sergey Kandaurov wrote:
> On 1 April 2011 01:03, Alexander Best <arundel at freebsd.org> wrote:
> > hi there,
> >
> > devstat_buildmatch(3) crashes with certain strings. you can test this by
> > doing one of:
> >
> > iostat -t ","
> > iostat -t ",,"
> > iostat -t "da,"
> > iostat -t ",da,"
> > iostat -t ",da"
> > iostat -t "da,scsi,"
> > iostat -t ",da,scsi"
> > iostat -t "da,,scsi"
> 
> [Someone told me, -hackers isn't appropriate for patches, Cc: -current.]
> 
> The problem is devstat(3) increments num_args regardless if strsep
> returned NULL.
> I think that should work (all your tests pass):
> 
> Index: lib/libdevstat/devstat.c
> ===================================================================
> --- lib/libdevstat/devstat.c    (revision 220102)
> +++ lib/libdevstat/devstat.c    (working copy)
> @@ -1014,11 +1014,12 @@
>          * Break the (comma delimited) input string out into separate strings.
>          */
>         for (tempstr = tstr, num_args  = 0;
> -            (*tempstr = strsep(&match_str, ",")) != NULL && (num_args < 5);
> -            num_args++)
> -               if (**tempstr != '\0')
> +            (*tempstr = strsep(&match_str, ",")) != NULL && (num_args < 5); )
                                                                              ^^
                                                                    extra space?
> +               if (**tempstr != '\0') {
> +                       num_args++;
>                         if (++tempstr >= &tstr[5])
>                                 break;
> +               }
> 
>         /* The user gave us too many type arguments */
>         if (num_args > 3) {
> 
> Please review, and I will commit the patch.

looking good. thanks. :)

> 
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