Re: [PATCH linux-next] tracing: use strscpy() to instead of strncpy()
From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Date: 2023-01-24 17:17:12
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On Mon, 9 Jan 2023 19:39:21 +0800 (CST) [off-list ref] wrote:
From: Xu Panda <redacted> The implementation of strscpy() is more robust and safer. That's now the recommended way to copy NUL-terminated strings.
But the string being copied is *not* NUL-terminated! And this change causes a bug. This is the 3rd patch I've seen that blindly converts strncpy() to strscpy() and causes a bug in doing so. Not very safe if you ask me.
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Signed-off-by: Xu Panda <redacted> Signed-off-by: Yang Yang <yang.yang29@zte.com.cn> --- kernel/trace/trace_events_synth.c | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_events_synth.c b/kernel/trace/trace_events_synth.c index 67592eed0be8..cd636edd045e 100644 --- a/kernel/trace/trace_events_synth.c +++ b/kernel/trace/trace_events_synth.c@@ -195,8 +195,7 @@ static int synth_field_string_size(char *type) if (len == 0) return 0; /* variable-length string */ - strncpy(buf, start, len); - buf[len] = '\0'; + strscpy(buf, start, len + 1); err = kstrtouint(buf, 0, &size); if (err)
Here's the code being affected:
static int synth_field_string_size(char *type)
{
char buf[4], *end, *start;
unsigned int len;
int size, err;
start = strstr(type, "char[");
if (start == NULL)
return -EINVAL;
start += sizeof("char[") - 1;
end = strchr(type, ']');
if (!end || end < start || type + strlen(type) > end + 1)
return -EINVAL;
len = end - start;
if (len > 3)
return -EINVAL;
if (len == 0)
return 0; /* variable-length string */
strncpy(buf, start, len);
buf[len] = '\0';
And you are replacing the above two lines with just:
strscpy(buf, start, len + 1);
If you noticed, the string being placed into buf is:
"char[123]"
Where we want to copy that "123" into buf.
strscpy() expects the source to be nul terminated, or it will return -E2BIG.
So the above will *always* return -E2BIG *and* not end buf[] with '\0' as
if strscpy() returns -E2BIG, then buf[] is not guaranteed to be
NUL-terminated.
NACK!
-- Steve