From: Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@linux.dev>
To: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>,
Daniel Thompson <danielt@kernel.org>,
Douglas Anderson <dianders@chromium.org>,
Nir Lichtman <nir@lichtman.org>,
Yuran Pereira <yuran.pereira@hotmail.com>,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
Zhang Heng <zhangheng@kylinos.cn>,
"Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <linux@treblig.org>
Cc: linux-hardening@vger.kernel.org,
Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@linux.dev>,
Daniel Thompson <daniel@riscstar.com>,
kgdb-bugreport@lists.sourceforge.net,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH v2 4/4] kdb: Replace deprecated strcpy() with helper function in kdb_defcmd()
Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2025 11:59:06 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250819095915.711085-4-thorsten.blum@linux.dev> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250819095915.711085-1-thorsten.blum@linux.dev>
strcpy() is deprecated; use the new helper function kdb_strdup_dequote()
instead. In addition to string duplication similar to kdb_strdup(), it
also trims surrounding quotes from the input string if present.
kdb_strdup_dequote() also checks for a trailing quote in the input
string which was previously not checked.
Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/88
Reviewed-by: Douglas Anderson <dianders@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@linux.dev>
---
Changes in v2:
- Copy 'len - 1' bytes using memcpy() as suggested by Doug
- Link to v1: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20250818181153.661431-4-thorsten.blum@linux.dev/
---
kernel/debug/kdb/kdb_main.c | 12 ++----------
kernel/debug/kdb/kdb_private.h | 1 +
kernel/debug/kdb/kdb_support.c | 29 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
3 files changed, 32 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
diff --git a/kernel/debug/kdb/kdb_main.c b/kernel/debug/kdb/kdb_main.c
index cdf91976eb7c..dddf2b5aad57 100644
--- a/kernel/debug/kdb/kdb_main.c
+++ b/kernel/debug/kdb/kdb_main.c
@@ -721,20 +721,12 @@ static int kdb_defcmd(int argc, const char **argv)
mp->name = kdb_strdup(argv[1], GFP_KDB);
if (!mp->name)
goto fail_name;
- mp->usage = kdb_strdup(argv[2], GFP_KDB);
+ mp->usage = kdb_strdup_dequote(argv[2], GFP_KDB);
if (!mp->usage)
goto fail_usage;
- mp->help = kdb_strdup(argv[3], GFP_KDB);
+ mp->help = kdb_strdup_dequote(argv[3], GFP_KDB);
if (!mp->help)
goto fail_help;
- if (mp->usage[0] == '"') {
- strcpy(mp->usage, argv[2]+1);
- mp->usage[strlen(mp->usage)-1] = '\0';
- }
- if (mp->help[0] == '"') {
- strcpy(mp->help, argv[3]+1);
- mp->help[strlen(mp->help)-1] = '\0';
- }
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&kdb_macro->statements);
defcmd_in_progress = true;
diff --git a/kernel/debug/kdb/kdb_private.h b/kernel/debug/kdb/kdb_private.h
index d2520d72b1f5..a2fc7d2bc9fc 100644
--- a/kernel/debug/kdb/kdb_private.h
+++ b/kernel/debug/kdb/kdb_private.h
@@ -110,6 +110,7 @@ extern int kdbgetaddrarg(int, const char **, int*, unsigned long *,
extern int kdbgetsymval(const char *, kdb_symtab_t *);
extern int kdbnearsym(unsigned long, kdb_symtab_t *);
extern char *kdb_strdup(const char *str, gfp_t type);
+extern char *kdb_strdup_dequote(const char *str, gfp_t type);
extern void kdb_symbol_print(unsigned long, const kdb_symtab_t *, unsigned int);
/* Routine for debugging the debugger state. */
diff --git a/kernel/debug/kdb/kdb_support.c b/kernel/debug/kdb/kdb_support.c
index d36281142fa1..56f7b906e7cc 100644
--- a/kernel/debug/kdb/kdb_support.c
+++ b/kernel/debug/kdb/kdb_support.c
@@ -255,6 +255,35 @@ char *kdb_strdup(const char *str, gfp_t type)
return s;
}
+/*
+ * kdb_strdup_dequote - same as kdb_strdup(), but trims surrounding quotes from
+ * the input string if present.
+ * Remarks:
+ * Quotes are only removed if there is both a leading and a trailing quote.
+ */
+char *kdb_strdup_dequote(const char *str, gfp_t type)
+{
+ size_t len = strlen(str);
+ char *s;
+
+ if (str[0] == '"' && len > 1 && str[len - 1] == '"') {
+ /* trim both leading and trailing quotes */
+ str++;
+ len -= 2;
+ }
+
+ len++; /* add space for NUL terminator */
+
+ s = kmalloc(len, type);
+ if (!s)
+ return NULL;
+
+ memcpy(s, str, len - 1);
+ s[len - 1] = '\0';
+
+ return s;
+}
+
/*
* kdb_getarea_size - Read an area of data. The kdb equivalent of
* copy_from_user, with kdb messages for invalid addresses.
--
2.50.1
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-08-19 9:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-08-19 9:59 [PATCH v2 1/4] kdb: Replace deprecated strcpy() with memcpy() in kdb_strdup() Thorsten Blum
2025-08-19 9:59 ` [PATCH v2 2/4] kdb: Replace deprecated strcpy() with memmove() in vkdb_printf() Thorsten Blum
2025-08-19 9:59 ` [PATCH v2 3/4] kdb: Replace deprecated strcpy() with memcpy() in parse_grep() Thorsten Blum
2025-08-19 9:59 ` Thorsten Blum [this message]
2025-09-08 10:28 ` [PATCH v2 4/4] kdb: Replace deprecated strcpy() with helper function in kdb_defcmd() Thorsten Blum
2025-09-26 14:59 ` [PATCH v2 1/4] kdb: Replace deprecated strcpy() with memcpy() in kdb_strdup() Daniel Thompson
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