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GeezerVison is showing github.com — fix: Repair bad string formatting - missing args, dangerous format spec by lgritz · Pull Request #2145 · AcademySoftwareFoundation/OpenShadingLanguage

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@lgritz lgritz commented Aug 15, 2026

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RendererServices default implementations of errorfmt(), warningfmt(), etc, passed the formatted error string directly to Context::errorfmt() as the sole argument, like

context->errorfmt(some_string);

But even though it's a single plain string with no intentional arguments to format, what if that string happens to containing std::format-like formatting directives, like "{hello world}", that will confuse the heck out of the underlying string formatting engine? The correct code all along was:

context->errorfmt("{}", any_string_ok_here);

Also happened to find a use of fmt in typecheck.cpp where it didn't pass an argument implied by the format spec.

Additionally, for safety in a somewhat related way, make decode_message not crash, and print debug info, if the underlying format_to_n throws an exception.

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fix: Repair bad string formatting - missing args, dangerous format spec
0509fc0
RendererServices default implementations of errorfmt(), warningfmt(),
etc, passed the formatted error string directly to Context::errorfmt()
as the sole argument, like

    context->errorfmt(some_string);

But even though it's a single plain string with no intentional
arguments to format, what if that string happens to containing
std::format-like formatting directives, like "{hello world}", that
will confuse the heck out of the underlying string formatting engine?
The correct code all along was:

    context->errorfmt("{}", any_string_ok_here);

Also happened to find a use of fmt in typecheck.cpp where it didn't pass an
argument implied by the format spec.

Additionally, for safety in a somewhat related way, make
decode_message not crash, and print debug info, if the underlying
format_to_n throws an exception.

Signed-off-by: Larry Gritz <[email protected]>
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lgritz force-pushed the lg-badformat branch from 7862cfb to 0509fc0 Compare August 15, 2026 07:07
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lgritz requested a review from grdanny August 15, 2026 07:43
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thanks for the quick fix!

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lgritz merged commit 0848570 into AcademySoftwareFoundation:main Aug 16, 2026
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lgritz deleted the lg-badformat branch August 16, 2026 18:53
lgritz added a commit to lgritz/OpenShadingLanguage that referenced this pull request Aug 17, 2026
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fix: Repair bad string formatting - missing args, dangerous format sp…
3a04f79
…ec (AcademySoftwareFoundation#2145)

RendererServices default implementations of errorfmt(), warningfmt(),
etc, passed the formatted error string directly to Context::errorfmt()
as the sole argument, like

    context->errorfmt(some_string);

But even though it's a single plain string with no intentional
arguments to format, what if that string happens to containing
std::format-like formatting directives, like "{hello world}", that
will confuse the heck out of the underlying string formatting engine?
The correct code all along was:

    context->errorfmt("{}", any_string_ok_here);

Also happened to find a use of fmt in typecheck.cpp where it didn't pass an
argument implied by the format spec.

Additionally, for safety in a somewhat related way, make
decode_message not crash, and print debug info, if the underlying
format_to_n throws an exception.

Signed-off-by: Larry Gritz <[email protected]>
lgritz added a commit to lgritz/OpenShadingLanguage that referenced this pull request Aug 17, 2026
@lgritz
fix: Repair bad string formatting - missing args, dangerous format sp…
c4f7022
…ec (AcademySoftwareFoundation#2145)

RendererServices default implementations of errorfmt(), warningfmt(),
etc, passed the formatted error string directly to Context::errorfmt()
as the sole argument, like

    context->errorfmt(some_string);

But even though it's a single plain string with no intentional
arguments to format, what if that string happens to containing
std::format-like formatting directives, like "{hello world}", that
will confuse the heck out of the underlying string formatting engine?
The correct code all along was:

    context->errorfmt("{}", any_string_ok_here);

Also happened to find a use of fmt in typecheck.cpp where it didn't pass an
argument implied by the format spec.

Additionally, for safety in a somewhat related way, make
decode_message not crash, and print debug info, if the underlying
format_to_n throws an exception.

Signed-off-by: Larry Gritz <[email protected]>
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