Thread (4 messages) 4 messages, 4 authors, 2023-10-18

Re: [PATCH v2] hamradio: replace deprecated strncpy with strscpy_pad

From: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>
Date: 2023-10-16 19:58:46
Also in: linux-hams, linux-hardening, lkml

On Mon, Oct 16, 2023 at 12:42:22PM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
On Mon, Oct 16, 2023 at 06:42:42PM +0000, Justin Stitt wrote:
quoted
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 based on 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_pad() as it
guarantees NUL-termination on the destination buffer while also
NUL-padding (which is good+wanted behavior when copying data to
userspace).

Link: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/deprecated.html#strncpy-on-nul-terminated-strings [1]
Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/90
Cc: linux-hardening@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Justin Stitt <justinstitt@google.com>
Thanks!

Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <redacted>
Likewise, thanks. I prefer this over v1.

Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>
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