From: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
To: David Laight <David.Laight@aculab.com>
Cc: 'Azeem Shaikh' <azeemshaikh38@gmail.com>,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
"linux-hardening@vger.kernel.org"
<linux-hardening@vger.kernel.org>,
"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kobject: Replace strlcpy with strscpy
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2023 16:52:42 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <202307121651.04D1758@keescook> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0aaa9355aa714e608091af2a5fca1373@AcuMS.aculab.com>
On Tue, Jul 11, 2023 at 08:14:30AM +0000, David Laight wrote:
> From: Azeem Shaikh
> > Sent: 10 July 2023 19:07
> >
> > On Mon, Jul 10, 2023 at 9:13 AM David Laight <David.Laight@aculab.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > > int len;
> > > >
> > > > - len = strlcpy(&env->buf[env->buflen], subsystem, buffer_size);
> > > > - if (len >= buffer_size) {
> > > > + len = strscpy(&env->buf[env->buflen], subsystem, buffer_size);
> > > > + if (len < 0) {
> > > > pr_warn("init_uevent_argv: buffer size of %d too small, needed %d\n",
> > > > buffer_size, len);
> > > > return -ENOMEM;
> > >
> > > The size in the error message is now wrong.
> >
> > Thanks for catching this.
> >
> > > It has to be said that mostly all the strings that get copied
> > > in the kernel are '\0' terminated - so maybe it is all moot.
> > > OTOH printing (at least some of) the string that didn't fit
> > > is a lot more useful than its length.
> >
> > How about printing out strlen(subsystem) along with the entire value
> > of @subsystem? So that the warn reads:
> >
> > pr_warn("init_uevent_argv: buffer size of %d too small for %s, needed
> > %d\n", buffer_size, subsystem, strlen(subsystem));
> >
> > Does that seem better?
Yeah, that'll retain the intention of the warning. It shouldn't really
even be possible to hit that warning, so I don't think we need to worry
about the "extra" call to strlen().
> Not with the justification for not using strlcpy() :-)
What?
-Kees
--
Kees Cook
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-07-12 23:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-07-03 18:05 [PATCH] kobject: Replace strlcpy with strscpy Azeem Shaikh
2023-07-10 13:13 ` David Laight
2023-07-10 18:06 ` Azeem Shaikh
2023-07-11 8:14 ` David Laight
2023-07-12 23:52 ` Kees Cook [this message]
2023-07-13 8:18 ` David Laight
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