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authorAzeem Shaikh <azeemshaikh38@gmail.com>2023-08-30 16:08:06 +0000
committerKees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>2023-09-22 09:50:56 -0700
commit8ebab155ea18a6d6c47b17287a0ab4633334f6eb (patch)
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parent215199e3d9f3dc01a6d10b8229891e6f7f1085e7 (diff)
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init/version.c: Replace strlcpy with strscpy
strlcpy() reads the entire source buffer first. This read may exceed the destination size limit. This is both inefficient and can lead to linear read overflows if a source string is not NUL-terminated [1]. In an effort to remove strlcpy() completely [2], replace strlcpy() here with strscpy(). Direct replacement is safe here since return value of -errno is used to check for truncation instead of sizeof(dest). [1] https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/deprecated.html#strlcpy [2] https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/89 Signed-off-by: Azeem Shaikh <azeemshaikh38@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Justin Stitt <justinstitt@google.com> Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230830160806.3821893-1-azeemshaikh38@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'init')
-rw-r--r--init/version.c6
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/init/version.c b/init/version.c
index f117921811b4..94c96f6fbfe6 100644
--- a/init/version.c
+++ b/init/version.c
@@ -21,10 +21,10 @@ static int __init early_hostname(char *arg)
{
size_t bufsize = sizeof(init_uts_ns.name.nodename);
size_t maxlen = bufsize - 1;
- size_t arglen;
+ ssize_t arglen;
- arglen = strlcpy(init_uts_ns.name.nodename, arg, bufsize);
- if (arglen > maxlen) {
+ arglen = strscpy(init_uts_ns.name.nodename, arg, bufsize);
+ if (arglen < 0) {
pr_warn("hostname parameter exceeds %zd characters and will be truncated",
maxlen);
}