Re: [PATCH] soc: fsl: qe: Replace all non-returning strlcpy with strscpy

[Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>]

On Mon, Jul 10, 2023 at 04:46:50PM +0000, Leo Li wrote:
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Azeem Shaikh <azeemshaikh38@gmail.com>
> > Sent: Sunday, July 9, 2023 9:36 PM
> > To: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
> > Cc: Qiang Zhao <qiang.zhao@nxp.com>; linux-hardening@vger.kernel.org;
> > linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; Leo Li
> > <leoyang.li@nxp.com>; linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
> > Subject: Re: [PATCH] soc: fsl: qe: Replace all non-returning strlcpy with
> > strscpy
> > 
> > On Tue, May 23, 2023 at 1:20 PM Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > On Tue, May 23, 2023 at 02:14:25AM +0000, Azeem Shaikh wrote:
> > > > 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().
> > > > No return values were used, so direct replacement is safe.
> > > >
> > > > [1]
> > > >
> > https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fww
> > > >
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> > > > Signed-off-by: Azeem Shaikh <azeemshaikh38@gmail.com>
> > >
> > > Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
> > >
> > 
> > Friendly ping on this.
> 
> Sorry for the late response.  But I found some old discussions with the conclusion to be not converting old users.  Has this been changed later on?
> https://lwn.net/Articles/659214/

The objection was with _mass_ conversions due to the risk of regressions
being introduced in a way that makes it hard to revert/bisect, etc.
We've being long on the road to doing these conversions to eliminate
strlcpy(), which continues to get introduced into the kernel, even
though it is risky.

-- 
Kees Cook