Thread (6 messages) 6 messages, 2 authors, 2020-11-13

Re: [PATCH v4 2/3] Modify return value of nla_strlcpy to match that of strscpy.

From: Francis Laniel <hidden>
Date: 2020-11-13 09:38:44
Also in: linux-hardening

Le vendredi 30 octobre 2020, 20:25:38 CET Kees Cook a écrit :
On Fri, Oct 30, 2020 at 04:36:46PM +0100, laniel_francis@privacyrequired.com 
wrote:
quoted
diff --git a/net/sched/sch_api.c b/net/sched/sch_api.c
index 2a76a2f5ed88..f9b053b30a7b 100644
--- a/net/sched/sch_api.c
+++ b/net/sched/sch_api.c
@@ -1170,7 +1170,7 @@ static struct Qdisc *qdisc_create(struct net_device
*dev,> 
 #ifdef CONFIG_MODULES
 
 	if (ops == NULL && kind != NULL) {
 	
 		char name[IFNAMSIZ];

-		if (nla_strlcpy(name, kind, IFNAMSIZ) < IFNAMSIZ) {
+		if (nla_strlcpy(name, kind, IFNAMSIZ) > 0) {

 			/* We dropped the RTNL semaphore in order to
 			
 			 * perform the module load.  So, even if we
 			 * succeeded in loading the module we have to
Oops, I think this should be >= 0 ?
Good catch! I will modify this, rebase my patch on top of master, test it a 
bit more than what I did for the v4 and push  v5!


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