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patchshow_ident_date: fix always-false conditional

Subject: [PATCH] show_ident_date: fix always-false conditional

## tl;dr

3 messages between Mar 7, 2014 and Mar 7, 2014. Diffs are folded; open one to read it.

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Eric Sunshine· Mar 7, 2014, 01:35 UTC · lore

1dca155fe3fa (log: handle integer overflow in timestamps, 2014-02-24) assigns the result of strtol() to an 'int' and then checks it against LONG_MIN and LONG_MAX, indicating underflow or overflow, even though 'int' may not be large enough to represent those values.

On Mac, the compiler complains:
    warning: comparison of constant 9223372036854775807 with
      expression of type 'int' is always false
      [-Wtautological-constant-out-of-range-compare]
      if (<<tz == LONG_MAX>> || tz == LONG_MIN)
Similarly for the LONG_MIN case. Fix this.
Signed-off-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
---

Alternately, the result of strtol() could be assigned temporarily to a 'long', compared against LONG_MIN and LONG_MAX, and then assigned to the 'int' "tz" variable. I chose the 'errno' approach instead because its dead obvious, even to the most casual reader who hasn't checked the strtol() man page, that it's handling a conversion failure. However, I could go either way.

This patch is atop 'next'.
 pretty.c | 8 ++++----
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
Show changes to pretty.c +4 −4
diff --git a/pretty.c b/pretty.c
index 3b811ed..8903116 100644
--- a/pretty.c
+++ b/pretty.c
@@ -403,10 +403,10 @@ static const char *show_ident_date(const struct ident_split *ident,
 		date = strtoul(ident->date_begin, NULL, 10);
 	if (date_overflows(date))
 		date = 0;
-	else {
-		if (ident->tz_begin && ident->tz_end)
-			tz = strtol(ident->tz_begin, NULL, 10);
-		if (tz == LONG_MAX || tz == LONG_MIN)
+	else if (ident->tz_begin && ident->tz_end) {
+		errno = 0;
+		tz = strtol(ident->tz_begin, NULL, 10);
+		if (errno)
 			tz = 0;
 	}
 	return show_date(date, tz, mode);

-- 
1.8.3.2
Jeff King· Mar 7, 2014, 17:15 UTC · re: Eric Sunshine · lore

Re: [PATCH] show_ident_date: fix always-false conditional

On Thu, Mar 06, 2014 at 08:35:24PM -0500, Eric Sunshine wrote:
Show 13 quoted lines
> 1dca155fe3fa (log: handle integer overflow in timestamps, 2014-02-24)
> assigns the result of strtol() to an 'int' and then checks it against
> LONG_MIN and LONG_MAX, indicating underflow or overflow, even though
> 'int' may not be large enough to represent those values.
> 
> On Mac, the compiler complains:
> 
>     warning: comparison of constant 9223372036854775807 with
>       expression of type 'int' is always false
>       [-Wtautological-constant-out-of-range-compare]
>       if (<<tz == LONG_MAX>> || tz == LONG_MIN)
> 
> Similarly for the LONG_MIN case. Fix this.

Yeah, this is definitely a potential bug. When I added the overflow check, I blindly assumed that the existing code was at least using a sufficiently large type to store the result of strtol, but it's not.

I don't think your fix catches all overflow, though:
> +	else if (ident->tz_begin && ident->tz_end) {
> +		errno = 0;
> +		tz = strtol(ident->tz_begin, NULL, 10);
> +		if (errno)

Errno will trigger if we overflowed a "long", but then we assign the result into an int, possibly truncating the result.

> Alternately, the result of strtol() could be assigned temporarily to a
> 'long', compared against LONG_MIN and LONG_MAX, and then assigned to the
> 'int' "tz" variable.

That catches overflow from strtol, but we'd then truncate when we pass it as an int to show_date.

I think we want this instead:
-- >8 --
Subject: show_ident_date: fix tz range check

Commit 1dca155fe3fa (log: handle integer overflow in timestamps, 2014-02-24) tried to catch integer overflow coming from strtol() on the timezone field by comparing against LONG_MIN/LONG_MAX. However, the intermediate "tz" variable is an "int", which means it can never be LONG_MAX on LP64 systems; we would truncate the output from strtol before the comparison.

Clang's -Wtautological-constant-out-of-range-compare notices this and rightly complains.

Let's instead store the result of strtol in a long, and then compare it against INT_MIN/INT_MAX. This will catch overflow from strtol, and also overflow when we pass the result as an int to show_date.

Reported-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
---
 pretty.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
Show changes to pretty.c +2 −2
diff --git a/pretty.c b/pretty.c
index 3b811ed..6e266dd 100644
--- a/pretty.c
+++ b/pretty.c
@@ -397,7 +397,7 @@ static const char *show_ident_date(const struct ident_split *ident,
 				   enum date_mode mode)
 {
 	unsigned long date = 0;
-	int tz = 0;
+	long tz = 0;
 
 	if (ident->date_begin && ident->date_end)
 		date = strtoul(ident->date_begin, NULL, 10);
@@ -406,7 +406,7 @@ static const char *show_ident_date(const struct ident_split *ident,
 	else {
 		if (ident->tz_begin && ident->tz_end)
 			tz = strtol(ident->tz_begin, NULL, 10);
-		if (tz == LONG_MAX || tz == LONG_MIN)
+		if (tz >= INT_MAX || tz <= INT_MIN)
 			tz = 0;
 	}
 	return show_date(date, tz, mode);

-- 
1.8.5.2.500.g8060133
Eric Sunshine· Mar 7, 2014, 18:12 UTC · re: Jeff King · lore

Re: [PATCH] show_ident_date: fix always-false conditional

On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 12:15 PM, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
Show 38 quoted lines
> On Thu, Mar 06, 2014 at 08:35:24PM -0500, Eric Sunshine wrote:
>
>> 1dca155fe3fa (log: handle integer overflow in timestamps, 2014-02-24)
>> assigns the result of strtol() to an 'int' and then checks it against
>> LONG_MIN and LONG_MAX, indicating underflow or overflow, even though
>> 'int' may not be large enough to represent those values.
>>
>> On Mac, the compiler complains:
>>
>>     warning: comparison of constant 9223372036854775807 with
>>       expression of type 'int' is always false
>>       [-Wtautological-constant-out-of-range-compare]
>>       if (<<tz == LONG_MAX>> || tz == LONG_MIN)
>>
>> Similarly for the LONG_MIN case. Fix this.
>
> Yeah, this is definitely a potential bug. When I added the overflow
> check, I blindly assumed that the existing code was at least using a
> sufficiently large type to store the result of strtol, but it's not.
>
> I don't think your fix catches all overflow, though:
>
>> +     else if (ident->tz_begin && ident->tz_end) {
>> +             errno = 0;
>> +             tz = strtol(ident->tz_begin, NULL, 10);
>> +             if (errno)
>
> Errno will trigger if we overflowed a "long", but then we assign the
> result into an int, possibly truncating the result.
>
>> Alternately, the result of strtol() could be assigned temporarily to a
>> 'long', compared against LONG_MIN and LONG_MAX, and then assigned to the
>> 'int' "tz" variable.
>
> That catches overflow from strtol, but we'd then truncate when we pass
> it as an int to show_date.
>
> I think we want this instead:
Makes sense.
Acked-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Show 50 quoted lines
> -- >8 --
> Subject: show_ident_date: fix tz range check
>
> Commit 1dca155fe3fa (log: handle integer overflow in
> timestamps, 2014-02-24) tried to catch integer overflow
> coming from strtol() on the timezone field by comparing against
> LONG_MIN/LONG_MAX. However, the intermediate "tz" variable
> is an "int", which means it can never be LONG_MAX on LP64
> systems; we would truncate the output from strtol before the
> comparison.
>
> Clang's -Wtautological-constant-out-of-range-compare notices
> this and rightly complains.
>
> Let's instead store the result of strtol in a long, and then
> compare it against INT_MIN/INT_MAX. This will catch overflow
> from strtol, and also overflow when we pass the result as an
> int to show_date.
>
> Reported-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
> Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
> ---
>  pretty.c | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/pretty.c b/pretty.c
> index 3b811ed..6e266dd 100644
> --- a/pretty.c
> +++ b/pretty.c
> @@ -397,7 +397,7 @@ static const char *show_ident_date(const struct ident_split *ident,
>                                    enum date_mode mode)
>  {
>         unsigned long date = 0;
> -       int tz = 0;
> +       long tz = 0;
>
>         if (ident->date_begin && ident->date_end)
>                 date = strtoul(ident->date_begin, NULL, 10);
> @@ -406,7 +406,7 @@ static const char *show_ident_date(const struct ident_split *ident,
>         else {
>                 if (ident->tz_begin && ident->tz_end)
>                         tz = strtol(ident->tz_begin, NULL, 10);
> -               if (tz == LONG_MAX || tz == LONG_MIN)
> +               if (tz >= INT_MAX || tz <= INT_MIN)
>                         tz = 0;
>         }
>         return show_date(date, tz, mode);
> --
> 1.8.5.2.500.g8060133
>

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