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From: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
To: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>, Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-hardening@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] inotify: Use strscpy() for event->name copies
Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2024 14:45:15 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20241216224507.work.859-kees@kernel.org> (raw)

Since we have already allocated "len + 1" space for event->name, make sure
that name->name cannot ever accidentally cause a copy overflow by calling
strscpy() instead of the unbounded strcpy() routine. This assists in
the ongoing efforts to remove the unsafe strcpy() API[1] from the kernel.

Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/88 [1]
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
---
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
---
 fs/notify/inotify/inotify_fsnotify.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/fs/notify/inotify/inotify_fsnotify.c b/fs/notify/inotify/inotify_fsnotify.c
index 993375f0db67..cd7d11b0eb08 100644
--- a/fs/notify/inotify/inotify_fsnotify.c
+++ b/fs/notify/inotify/inotify_fsnotify.c
@@ -121,7 +121,7 @@ int inotify_handle_inode_event(struct fsnotify_mark *inode_mark, u32 mask,
 	event->sync_cookie = cookie;
 	event->name_len = len;
 	if (len)
-		strcpy(event->name, name->name);
+		strscpy(event->name, name->name, event->name_len + 1);
 
 	ret = fsnotify_add_event(group, fsn_event, inotify_merge);
 	if (ret) {
-- 
2.34.1


             reply	other threads:[~2024-12-16 22:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-12-16 22:45 Kees Cook [this message]
2024-12-17  4:12 ` [PATCH] inotify: Use strscpy() for event->name copies Matthew Wilcox
2024-12-17  7:51   ` Kees Cook
2024-12-18 10:35 ` Jan Kara

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