[PATCH] od_bloaty: fix floating point output

Ron Yorston rmy at pobox.com
Wed Jul 19 09:43:10 UTC 2017


Currently od_bloaty does this:

   $ /bin/echo -en '\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00' | busybox od -f
   od: invalid character 'F' in type string 'fF'
   $ /bin/echo -en '\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00' | busybox od -t fD
   od: invalid character 'D' in type string 'fD'
   $ /bin/echo -en '\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00' | busybox od -t f
   0000000
   0000010

The first two occur because the alphabetic length specifier isn't being
properly skipped.  The third is due to the empty length specifier being
treated as alphabetic so we fall off the end of the FDL_sizeof array with
undetermined consequences.  Coreutils defaults to printing a double in
this case.

With this patch the output is:

   $ /bin/echo -en '\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00' | ./busybox od -f
   0000000   0.0000000e+00   0.0000000e+00
   0000010
   $ /bin/echo -en '\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00' | ./busybox od -t fD
   0000000   0.000000000000000e+00
   0000010
   $ /bin/echo -en '\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00' | ./busybox od -t f
   0000000   0.000000000000000e+00
   0000010

I guess nobody uses BusyBox od to print floating point numbers.

Signed-off-by: Ron Yorston <rmy at pobox.com>
---
 coreutils/od_bloaty.c |  3 ++-
 testsuite/od.tests    | 10 ++++++++++
 2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/coreutils/od_bloaty.c b/coreutils/od_bloaty.c
index f13bdfc11..fa0196ca4 100644
--- a/coreutils/od_bloaty.c
+++ b/coreutils/od_bloaty.c
@@ -665,7 +665,7 @@ decode_one_format(const char *s_orig, const char *s, struct tspec *tspec)
 		fmt = FLOATING_POINT;
 		++s;
 		p = strchr(FDL, *s);
-		if (!p) {
+		if (!p || *p == '\0') {
 			size = sizeof(double);
 			if (isdigit(s[0])) {
 				size = bb_strtou(s, &end, 0);
@@ -686,6 +686,7 @@ decode_one_format(const char *s_orig, const char *s, struct tspec *tspec)
 			};
 
 			size = FDL_sizeof[p - FDL];
+			s++; /* skip F/D/L */
 		}
 
 		size_spec = fp_type_size[size];
diff --git a/testsuite/od.tests b/testsuite/od.tests
index 7a9da3e97..0880e0d2f 100755
--- a/testsuite/od.tests
+++ b/testsuite/od.tests
@@ -16,6 +16,16 @@ testing "od -b" \
 	"" "HELLO"
 SKIP=
 
+optional DESKTOP
+testing "od -f" \
+	"od -f" \
+"\
+0000000   0.0000000e+00   0.0000000e+00
+0000010
+" \
+	"" "\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00"
+SKIP=
+
 optional DESKTOP LONG_OPTS
 testing "od -b --traditional" \
 	"od -b --traditional" \
-- 
2.13.3



More information about the busybox mailing list