Re: [Intel-wired-lan] [PATCH 5/5] drivers/s390/cio: ensure the copied buf is NULL terminated

[Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com>]

On Tue, Apr 23, 2024 at 09:46:35PM +0700, Bui Quang Minh wrote:
> > > -	buffer = vmemdup_user(buf, lbuf);
> > > +	buffer = vmemdup_user(buf, lbuf + 1);
> > >   	if (IS_ERR(buffer))
> > >   		return -ENOMEM;
> > > +	buffer[lbuf] = '\0';
> > 
> > This would read one byte too much from user space, and could potentially
> > fault.
> > 
> > Why isn't this simply memdup_user_nul() like all others, which would do the
> > right thing?
...
> For this case, as the original code uses vmemdup_user, which internally uses
> kvmalloc not kmalloc, so I try to keep the original behavior. And
> vmemdup_user does not have the counterpart vmemdup_user_nul. I can
> kvmalloc(lbuf + 1), then copy_to_user(lbuf) and set buffer[lbuf] = '\0' or
> do you think I should create vmemdup_user_nul?

There is no need for vmalloc() instead of kmalloc() for this particular
case. The input string is supposed to be rather short (see the sscanf()
call). So converting to memdup_user_nul() is sufficient and solves the
potential problem.