range-check an Integer before narrowing it to a C int by saddamr3e · Pull Request #7713 · mruby/mruby

saddamr3e · 2026-10-25T05:45:18Z

UBSan, clang -fsanitize=undefined, sprintf("%.*x", -2**31, -1):

sprintf.c:793:16: runtime error: signed integer overflow: -2147483648 - 3 cannot be represented in type 'int'

Trace

GETASTER in mruby-sprintf reads a * width or precision with (int)mrb_as_int(), so on a 64-bit mrb_int the INT16 width bound and the negative-precision rule judge the truncated value: sprintf("%*d", 2**32 + 3, 7) is " 7" and sprintf("%.*s", 2**32 + 2, "abcdef") is "ab".
A precision of exactly INT_MIN is ignored but kept, and the .. of a negative %x takes 3 from it (the trace above). On a plain build that wraps to INT_MAX - 2 and the call fills about 2GB of f instead of answering "..f".
Three more sites narrow the same way: SystemCallError.new("a", 2**32 + 2) is an Errno::ENOENT, IO.popen(cmd, out: 2**32 + 1) writes to fd 1, and exit(2**32 + 3) exits with status 3. CRuby raises RangeError for each of these values.

Change

Each site checks the mrb_int against int before the cast. sprintf raises the ArgumentError (width too big / prec too big) that get_num() already raises for a literal; errno, popen and exit raise RangeError behind #if MRB_INT_MAX > INT_MAX, as mrb_process_int_arg() and the socket hint check do.
A negative * precision is reset to -1 when it is ignored.
mruby-sprintf, mruby-errno, mruby-io, mruby-exit (new test/exit.rb).

Validation

One regression test per site; all five fail on master and pass with the patch. The values are computed, so the files still load on MRB_INT32 builds, where the tests skip.
ci/gcc-clang matrix: KO 0 on every target. The one crash, test/t/class.rb:536 (superclass mismatch for B), happens on master too.
clang address+undefined build: the reproducers above run clean.

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Bug Fixes
- Integer values outside the supported range now raise an error instead of being silently narrowed when setting process exit status, creating system call errors, configuring I/O redirections, or supplying dynamic formatting widths and precisions.
- Negative dynamic precision continues to be ignored during formatting.

A * width or precision in sprintf, the errno of SystemCallError.new, a popen redirect descriptor and the status of exit were each cast from mrb_int to int with no check, so on a 64-bit mrb_int a value past int was cut down to its low 32 bits: sprintf("%.*s", 2**32 + 2, "abcdef") answered "ab" and exit(2**32 + 3) exited with status 3. Check the value before the cast. sprintf raises the ArgumentError that get_num() raises for a literal; the others raise RangeError, as CRuby does. A negative * precision is also reset to -1 when it is ignored, since the ".." of a negative %x took 3 from a kept INT_MIN.

coderabbitai · 2026-10-25T05:45:39Z

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The changes add range checks before converting errno values, exit statuses, IO redirect descriptors, and dynamic sprintf widths or precisions to C int. Tests cover out-of-range values and negative precision formatting.

Changes: Integer Range Checks

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Errno and exit value checks `mrbgems/mruby-errno/src/errno.c`, `mrbgems/mruby-errno/test/errno.rb`, `mrbgems/mruby-exit/src/mruby_exit.c`, `mrbgems/mruby-exit/test/exit.rb`	Errno initialization and exit status conversion reject values outside the C `int` range. Tests cover positive and negative values.
IO redirect descriptor checks `mrbgems/mruby-io/src/io.c`, `mrbgems/mruby-io/test/io.rb`	Integer redirect descriptors outside the C `int` range raise a range error. Tests cover input and output redirection.
Dynamic sprintf width and precision checks `mrbgems/mruby-sprintf/src/sprintf.c`, `mrbgems/mruby-sprintf/test/sprintf.rb`	Dynamic width and precision arguments are checked against the C `int` range. Tests also cover negative precision formatting.

Priority: Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Merge Risk: Moderate · up to b35b5

The new regression tests fail on supported build configurations. Fix their guards before merging; the supplied evidence does not establish a failure in the new range checks themselves.

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Review comments at @mrbgems/mruby-errno/test/errno.rb:
- Line 37: Update the Bigint test around the `SystemCallError.new(-big)`
assertion to skip when `big` cannot be represented as an `mrb_int`, then keep
the one-argument assertion so it exercises the intended errno-bound check.

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- Line 668: Guard the RangeError assertion for the IO.popen call with a check
that IO.respond_to?(:_popen), so ports without _popen skip this test instead of
treating NotImplementedError as a failure.
- Line 666: Update the bigint test guard around `skip "no integer past 32 bits"
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coderabbitai · 2026-10-25T05:50:22Z

+  end
+  skip "no integer past 32 bits" unless big
+  assert_raise(RangeError) { SystemCallError.new("a", big) }
+  assert_raise(RangeError) { SystemCallError.new(-big) }


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Skip Bigint values instead of using the two-argument form.

On MRB_INT32 with mruby-bigint, big avoids the existing skip. The one-argument call treats -big as a message and raises TypeError. The two-argument call avoids that path, but mrb_as_int converts the Bigint to mrb_int first and raises RangeError before the changed INT_MIN/INT_MAX errno check. The assertion would pass without testing the changed bound.

Skip values that are not representable as mrb_int, then keep the one-argument assertion:

Proposed test change

--- "a/mrbgems/mruby-errno/test/errno.rb" +++ "b/mrbgems/mruby-errno/test/errno.rb" @@ -32,9 +32,14 @@ rescue RangeError nil end skip "no integer past 32 bits" unless big + begin + [][big] + rescue RangeError + skip "big integer is not an mrb_int" + end assert_raise(RangeError) { SystemCallError.new("a", big) } assert_raise(RangeError) { SystemCallError.new(-big) } end assert('SystemCallError#inspect') do

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coderabbitai · 2026-10-25T05:50:22Z

+  rescue RangeError
+    nil
+  end
+  skip "no integer past 32 bits" unless big


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Skip the bigint case on 32-bit builds.

With MRB_INT32 and bigint enabled, (1 << shift) + 1 produces a Bignum instead of raising RangeError. The test does not skip. option_to_fd rejects that Bignum as a redirect action with ArgumentError, so both assertions fail. Check whether big is representable as mrb_int before running this regression test, or extend descriptor conversion to cover Bignums. (raw.githubusercontent.com)

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coderabbitai · 2026-10-25T05:50:22Z

+  end
+  skip "no integer past 32 bits" unless big
+  begin
+    assert_raise(RangeError) { IO.popen("#{$cmd}echo mruby-io", "r", out: big) { |i| i.read } }


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Check _popen support before assert_raise.

If the port does not support _popen, IO.popen raises NotImplementedError. assert_raise(RangeError) catches that exception and records a failure. The outer rescue at Line 670 never receives it, so this test cannot skip on that port. Check IO.respond_to?(:_popen) before the assertions. (raw.githubusercontent.com)

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setsockopt and getsockopt cast level and optname with (int), and the same cast sits on the flags of send, recv and recvfrom, on shutdown's how, on Addrinfo#getnameinfo's flags, on Socket::Option.int's value and on the arguments of Socket._socket, _bind, _connect, _listen and _accept. On a 64-bit mrb_int, s.setsockopt((1 << 32) + Socket::SOL_SOCKET, Socket::SO_REUSEADDR, true) set the option on SOL_SOCKET, and s.send("x", (1 << 32) + 1) sent with flags 1. Raise RangeError instead, as #7713 and the getaddrinfo hints do, and as CRuby does for these values. setsockopt also packed an Integer or true/false optval as an mrb_int. The OS reads an int from it, which on a big-endian host is the upper half, so these options were set to 0. Pack an int.

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