Re: [PATCH] Revert "HID: uhid: use strlcpy() instead of strncpy()"
From: Laura Abbott <hidden>
Date: 2018-11-14 15:40:47
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On 11/14/18 5:16 AM, David Herrmann wrote:
This reverts commit 336fd4f5f25157e9e8bd50e898a1bbcd99eaea46. Please note that `strlcpy()` does *NOT* do what you think it does. strlcpy() *ALWAYS* reads the full input string, regardless of the 'length' parameter. That is, if the input is not zero-terminated, strlcpy() will *READ* beyond input boundaries. It does this, because it always returns the size it *would* copy if the target was big enough, not the truncated size it actually copied. The original code was perfectly fine. The hid device is zero-initialized and the strncpy() functions copied up to n-1 characters. The result is always zero-terminated this way. This is the third time someone tried to replace strncpy with strlcpy in this function, and gets it wrong. I now added a comment that should at least make people reconsider.
Can we switch to strscpy instead? This will quiet gcc and avoid the issues with strlcpy.
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Signed-off-by: David Herrmann <redacted> --- drivers/hid/uhid.c | 13 +++++++------ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)diff --git a/drivers/hid/uhid.c b/drivers/hid/uhid.c index fefedc0b4dc6..0dfdd0ac7120 100644 --- a/drivers/hid/uhid.c +++ b/drivers/hid/uhid.c@@ -496,12 +496,13 @@ static int uhid_dev_create2(struct uhid_device *uhid, goto err_free; } - len = min(sizeof(hid->name), sizeof(ev->u.create2.name)); - strlcpy(hid->name, ev->u.create2.name, len); - len = min(sizeof(hid->phys), sizeof(ev->u.create2.phys)); - strlcpy(hid->phys, ev->u.create2.phys, len); - len = min(sizeof(hid->uniq), sizeof(ev->u.create2.uniq)); - strlcpy(hid->uniq, ev->u.create2.uniq, len); + /* @hid is zero-initialized, strncpy() is correct, strlcpy() not */ + len = min(sizeof(hid->name), sizeof(ev->u.create2.name)) - 1; + strncpy(hid->name, ev->u.create2.name, len); + len = min(sizeof(hid->phys), sizeof(ev->u.create2.phys)) - 1; + strncpy(hid->phys, ev->u.create2.phys, len); + len = min(sizeof(hid->uniq), sizeof(ev->u.create2.uniq)) - 1; + strncpy(hid->uniq, ev->u.create2.uniq, len); hid->ll_driver = &uhid_hid_driver; hid->bus = ev->u.create2.bus;