Re: [PATCH v4 1/2] string: Add load_unaligned_zeropad() code path to sized_strscpy()

[David Laight <david.laight.linux@gmail.com>]

On Wed, 2 Apr 2025 17:08:51 -0700
Peter Collingbourne <pcc@google.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 2, 2025 at 1:10 PM Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> wrote:
..
> > Reading across tag granule (but not across page boundary) and causing a
> > tag check fault would result in padding but we can live with this and
> > only architectures that do MTE-style tag checking would get the new
> > behaviour.  
> 
> By "padding" do you mean the extra (up to sizeof(unsigned long)) nulls
> now written to the destination? It seems unlikely that code would
> deliberately depend on the nulls not being written, the number of
> nulls written is not part of the documented interface contract and
> will vary right now depending on how close the source string is to a
> page boundary. If code is accidentally depending on nulls not being
> written, that's almost certainly a bug anyway (because of the page
> boundary thing) and we should fix it if discovered by this change.

There was an issue with one of the copy routines writing beyond
the expected point in a destination buffer.
I can't remember the full details, but it would match strscpy().

	David