[PATCH v2] module: use strscpy() to copy module names in stats and dup tracking
From: Naveen Kumar Chaudhary <hidden>
Date: 2026-06-04 17:45:05
Subsystem:
module support, the rest · Maintainers:
Luis Chamberlain, Petr Pavlu, Daniel Gomez, Sami Tolvanen, Linus Torvalds
Both try_add_failed_module() and kmod_dup_request_exists_wait() use memcpy() with strlen() to copy module names into fixed-size char[MODULE_NAME_LEN] buffers. Neither performs a bounds check on the copy. Current callers always pass names originating from mod->name (itself char[MODULE_NAME_LEN]), so this is not exploitable today. However both functions accept a plain const char * with no documented length contract, making them latent buffer overflows if a future caller passes a longer string. Replace memcpy() with strscpy() in both sites, which bounds the copy to MODULE_NAME_LEN and always NUL-terminates. Signed-off-by: Naveen Kumar Chaudhary <redacted> --- v1 -> v2: - Dropped third argument to strscpy - Merged the other patch https://lore.kernel.org/linux-modules/jmm7r4r3k3qt767tl7lojglosgc3umhc63cdp2fckdkgb3fzki@3fgvxgvzo5ex/ (local) Thanks Petr for the reviews. Taken care of the suggestions. Regards, Naveen kernel/module/dups.c | 2 +- kernel/module/stats.c | 2 +- 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/kernel/module/dups.c b/kernel/module/dups.c
index 1d720a5311ba..33bddfb57317 100644
--- a/kernel/module/dups.c
+++ b/kernel/module/dups.c@@ -129,7 +129,7 @@ bool kmod_dup_request_exists_wait(char *module_name, bool wait, int *dup_ret) if (!new_kmod_req) return false; - memcpy(new_kmod_req->name, module_name, strlen(module_name)); + strscpy(new_kmod_req->name, module_name); INIT_WORK(&new_kmod_req->complete_work, kmod_dup_request_complete); INIT_DELAYED_WORK(&new_kmod_req->delete_work, kmod_dup_request_delete); init_completion(&new_kmod_req->first_req_done);
diff --git a/kernel/module/stats.c b/kernel/module/stats.c
index 3a9672f93a8e..08724baca773 100644
--- a/kernel/module/stats.c
+++ b/kernel/module/stats.c@@ -253,7 +253,7 @@ int try_add_failed_module(const char *name, enum fail_dup_mod_reason reason) mod_fail = kzalloc_obj(*mod_fail); if (!mod_fail) return -ENOMEM; - memcpy(mod_fail->name, name, strlen(name)); + strscpy(mod_fail->name, name); __set_bit(reason, &mod_fail->dup_fail_mask); atomic_long_inc(&mod_fail->count); list_add_rcu(&mod_fail->list, &dup_failed_modules);
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