On Tue, Dec 02, 2025 at 10:22:44AM +0100, Jonas Rebmann wrote:
> __decode_base64 generally writes the input in 3 bytes increments,
> corresponding to 4 bytes increments in the base64 input buffer. This
> means that in order to respect dst_len as the size of the output buffer,
> the case of exceeding dst_len within a loop iteration must be
> considered.
> 
> In such a case, refrain from writing the last one or two bytes if that
> write would be past dst_len.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jonas Rebmann <[email protected]>
> ---
>  lib/base64.c | 10 +++++-----
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

I wonder if we should switch to the kernel functions from lib/base64.c
instead. They look much more straight forward than the busybox based
implementation.

Sascha

> 
> diff --git a/lib/base64.c b/lib/base64.c
> index d5ab217528..3e29f0a56c 100644
> --- a/lib/base64.c
> +++ b/lib/base64.c
> @@ -163,19 +163,19 @@ static int __decode_base64(char *p_dst, int dst_len, 
> const char *src, bool url)
>                */
>               if (count > 1)
>                       *dst++ = six_bit[0] << 2 | six_bit[1] >> 4;
> -             if (count > 2)
> +             if (count > 2 && dst_len > 1)
>                       *dst++ = six_bit[1] << 4 | six_bit[2] >> 2;
> -             if (count > 3)
> +             if (count > 3 && dst_len > 2)
>                       *dst++ = six_bit[2] << 6 | six_bit[3];
> +             /* last character was "=" */
> +             if (count != 0)
> +                     length += min(count - 1, dst_len);
>               /*
>                * Note that if we decode "AA==" and ate first '=',
>                * we just decoded one char (count == 2) and now we'll
>                * do the loop once more to decode second '='.
>                */
>               dst_len -= count-1;
> -             /* last character was "=" */
> -             if (count != 0)
> -                     length += count - 1;
>       }
>  ret:
>       p_dst = dst;
> 
> -- 
> 2.51.2.535.g419c72cb8a
> 
> 

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