Is the commit log correct?

Is the issue that the character past the '\0' could be read?

Mike

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Wang, Jian J
> Sent: Tuesday, December 26, 2017 6:14 PM
> To: Wang, Jian J <[email protected]>; edk2-
> [email protected]
> Cc: Kinney, Michael D <[email protected]>; Yao,
> Jiewen <[email protected]>; Zeng, Star
> <[email protected]>; Gao, Liming <[email protected]>
> Subject: RE: [edk2] [PATCH] MdePkg/BasePrintLib: Fix
> incorrect Precision position calculation
> 
> Mike and Liming,
> 
> Could you take a look at this patch?
> 
> Regards,
> Jian
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: edk2-devel [mailto:edk2-devel-
> [email protected]] On Behalf Of Jian J
> > Wang
> > Sent: Monday, December 25, 2017 10:09 AM
> > To: [email protected]
> > Cc: Kinney, Michael D <[email protected]>;
> Yao, Jiewen
> > <[email protected]>; Zeng, Star
> <[email protected]>; Gao, Liming
> > <[email protected]>
> > Subject: [edk2] [PATCH] MdePkg/BasePrintLib: Fix
> incorrect Precision position
> > calculation
> >
> > Due to the a potential hole in the stop condition of
> for-loop, the two
> > continuous access to ArgumentString (index, index+1)
> inside the loop
> > might cause the string ending character ('\0') to be
> read.
> >
> > Cc: Michael D Kinney <[email protected]>
> > Cc: Liming Gao <[email protected]>
> > Cc: Jiewen Yao <[email protected]>
> > Cc: Star Zeng <[email protected]>
> > Contributed-under: TianoCore Contribution Agreement 1.1
> > Signed-off-by: Jian J Wang <[email protected]>
> > ---
> >  MdePkg/Library/BasePrintLib/PrintLibInternal.c | 5
> ++++-
> >  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git
> a/MdePkg/Library/BasePrintLib/PrintLibInternal.c
> > b/MdePkg/Library/BasePrintLib/PrintLibInternal.c
> > index 28d946472f..297d5a05b5 100644
> > --- a/MdePkg/Library/BasePrintLib/PrintLibInternal.c
> > +++ b/MdePkg/Library/BasePrintLib/PrintLibInternal.c
> > @@ -1107,7 +1107,10 @@ BasePrintLibSPrintMarker (
> >        // Compute the number of characters in
> ArgumentString and store it in
> > Count
> >        // ArgumentString is either null-terminated, or
> it contains Precision
> > characters
> >        //
> > -      for (Count = 0; Count < Precision || ((Flags &
> PRECISION) == 0); Count++) {
> > +      for (Count = 0;
> > +            ArgumentString[Count *
> BytesPerArgumentCharacter] != '\0' &&
> > +            (Count < Precision || ((Flags & PRECISION)
> == 0));
> > +              Count++) {
> >          ArgumentCharacter = ((ArgumentString[Count *
> > BytesPerArgumentCharacter] & 0xff) |
> ((ArgumentString[Count *
> > BytesPerArgumentCharacter + 1]) << 8)) & ArgumentMask;
> >          if (ArgumentCharacter == 0) {
> >            break;
> > --
> > 2.15.1.windows.2
> >
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