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dd: count=N iflag=count_bytes underflows when a conversion writes more than N bytes (debug panic, count limit bypassed in release) #13434

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Summary

calc_loop_bsize calculates the remaining count=N iflag=count_bytes input budget from bytes written. An expanding conversion can therefore make the subtraction underflow:

let bremain: u128 = bmax - wstat.bytes_total;

Reproducer

$ yes aaaaaaaaaa | head -c 2000 > input.txt
$ cargo run -p uu_dd --release -- if=input.txt of=out.bin conv=block cbs=1024 count=1000 iflag=count_bytes

Before the fix, debug builds panic and release builds report 2+0 records in, consuming 1,024 bytes although the limit is 1,000. GNU consumes exactly 1,000 bytes.

Expected

Calculate the remaining input budget from bytes read.

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