Patch "net: don't call strlen on non-terminated string in dev_set_alias()" has been added to the 3.18-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    net: don't call strlen on non-terminated string in dev_set_alias()

to the 3.18-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     net-don-t-call-strlen-on-non-terminated-string-in-dev_set_alias.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.18 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From foo@baz Thu Jun 29 19:45:34 CEST 2017
From: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>
Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2017 15:56:54 +0200
Subject: net: don't call strlen on non-terminated string in dev_set_alias()

From: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>


[ Upstream commit c28294b941232931fbd714099798eb7aa7e865d7 ]

KMSAN reported a use of uninitialized memory in dev_set_alias(),
which was caused by calling strlcpy() (which in turn called strlen())
on the user-supplied non-terminated string.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 net/core/dev.c |    3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/net/core/dev.c
+++ b/net/core/dev.c
@@ -1194,8 +1194,9 @@ int dev_set_alias(struct net_device *dev
 	if (!new_ifalias)
 		return -ENOMEM;
 	dev->ifalias = new_ifalias;
+	memcpy(dev->ifalias, alias, len);
+	dev->ifalias[len] = 0;
 
-	strlcpy(dev->ifalias, alias, len+1);
 	return len;
 }
 


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from glider@google.com are

queue-3.18/net-don-t-call-strlen-on-non-terminated-string-in-dev_set_alias.patch