Thread (7 messages) 7 messages, 5 authors, 2023-10-16
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[PATCH] hamradio: replace deprecated strncpy with strscpy

From: Justin Stitt <justinstitt@google.com>
Date: 2023-10-12 21:33:40
Also in: linux-hams, linux-hardening, lkml
Subsystem: networking drivers, the rest · Maintainers: Andrew Lunn, "David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Linus Torvalds

strncpy() is deprecated for use on NUL-terminated destination strings
[1] and as such we should prefer more robust and less ambiguous string
interfaces.

We expect both hi.data.modename and hi.data.drivername to be
NUL-terminated but not necessarily NUL-padded which is evident by its
usage with sprintf:
|       sprintf(hi.data.modename, "%sclk,%smodem,fclk=%d,bps=%d%s",
|               bc->cfg.intclk ? "int" : "ext",
|               bc->cfg.extmodem ? "ext" : "int", bc->cfg.fclk, bc->cfg.bps,
|               bc->cfg.loopback ? ",loopback" : "");

Note that this data is copied out to userspace with:
|       if (copy_to_user(data, &hi, sizeof(hi)))
... however, the data was also copied FROM the user here:
|       if (copy_from_user(&hi, data, sizeof(hi)))

Considering the above, a suitable replacement is `strscpy` [2] due to
the fact that it guarantees NUL-termination on the destination buffer
without unnecessarily NUL-padding.

Link: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/deprecated.html#strncpy-on-nul-terminated-strings [1]
Link: https://manpages.debian.org/testing/linux-manual-4.8/strscpy.9.en.html [2]
Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/90
Cc: linux-hardening@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Justin Stitt <justinstitt@google.com>
---
Note: build-tested only.

Also, there are 33 instances of trailing whitespace in this file alone.
I've opted to not remove them in this patch.
---
 drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_epp.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_epp.c b/drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_epp.c
index 83ff882f5d97..30a0fbb12b9c 100644
--- a/drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_epp.c
+++ b/drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_epp.c
@@ -1074,7 +1074,7 @@ static int baycom_siocdevprivate(struct net_device *dev, struct ifreq *ifr,
 		return 0;
 
 	case HDLCDRVCTL_DRIVERNAME:
-		strncpy(hi.data.drivername, "baycom_epp", sizeof(hi.data.drivername));
+		strscpy(hi.data.drivername, "baycom_epp", sizeof(hi.data.drivername));
 		break;
 		
 	case HDLCDRVCTL_GETMODE:
@@ -1091,7 +1091,7 @@ static int baycom_siocdevprivate(struct net_device *dev, struct ifreq *ifr,
 		return baycom_setmode(bc, hi.data.modename);
 
 	case HDLCDRVCTL_MODELIST:
-		strncpy(hi.data.modename, "intclk,extclk,intmodem,extmodem,divider=x",
+		strscpy(hi.data.modename, "intclk,extclk,intmodem,extmodem,divider=x",
 			sizeof(hi.data.modename));
 		break;
 
---
base-commit: cbf3a2cb156a2c911d8f38d8247814b4c07f49a2
change-id: 20231012-strncpy-drivers-net-hamradio-baycom_epp-c-6e11c9483b9f

Best regards,
--
Justin Stitt [off-list ref]
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