From: Francis Laniel <laniel_francis@privacyrequired.com>
To: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>,
linux-hardening@vger.kernel.org, davem@davemloft.net
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH v2 0/3] Fix inefficiences and rename nla_strlcpy
Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2020 12:18:58 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2449441.JnRqNryMRx@machine> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201019163412.28c81fc4@kicinski-fedora-pc1c0hjn.dhcp.thefacebook.com>
Le mardi 20 octobre 2020, 01:34:12 CEST Jakub Kicinski a écrit :
> On Mon, 19 Oct 2020 15:58:36 -0700 Kees Cook wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 19, 2020 at 09:45:15AM -0700, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> > > On Mon, 19 Oct 2020 17:23:28 +0200 laniel_francis@privacyrequired.com
> > >
> > > wrote:
> > > > To sum up, the first patch fixes an inefficiency where some bytes in
> > > > dst were written twice, one with 0 the other with src content.
> > > > The second one modifies nla_strlcpy to return the same value as
> > > > strscpy,
> > > > i.e. number of bytes written or -E2BIG if src was truncated.
> > > > The third rename nla_strlcpy to nla_strcpy.
> > > >
> > > > Unfortunately, I did not find how to create struct nlattr objects so I
> > > > tested my modifications on simple char*.
> > > > This is why I tag this patch set as RFC.
> > > >
> > > > If you see any way to improve the code or have any remark, feel free
> > > > to comment.> >
> > > You follow semantics of strscpy, yet rename to strcpy. Wouldn't it be
> > > more intuitive for developers to rename to nla_strscpy?
> >
> > It's closer to strscpy_pad() but that seems a long name. What's
> > preferred from the NLA perspective?
>
> I think the pad part is pretty much implied in the netlink world.
> All this stuff goes to user space, so we can't have uninit memory.
> We may get more informed opinions once this hits netdev@.
I will rename it nla_strscpy for the next version and we will discuss the name
with the netdev list.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-10-20 10:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-10-16 12:52 [RFC][PATCH v1] Fix and rename nla_strlcpy to nla_strcpy laniel_francis
2020-10-16 12:52 ` [PATCH v1 1/3] Fix unefficient call to memset before memcpu in nla_strlcpy laniel_francis
2020-10-16 23:19 ` Kees Cook
2020-10-17 8:50 ` Francis Laniel
2020-10-16 23:29 ` Jann Horn
2020-10-17 8:50 ` Francis Laniel
2020-10-16 12:52 ` [PATCH v1 2/3] Modify return value of nla_strlcpy to match that of strscpy laniel_francis
2020-10-16 23:23 ` Kees Cook
2020-10-17 8:53 ` Francis Laniel
2020-10-17 0:41 ` Jann Horn
2020-10-17 8:56 ` Francis Laniel
2020-10-16 12:52 ` [PATCH v1 3/3] Rename nla_strlcpy to nla_strcpy laniel_francis
2020-10-16 23:18 ` Kees Cook
2020-10-19 15:23 ` [RFC][PATCH v2 0/3] Fix inefficiences and rename nla_strlcpy laniel_francis
2020-10-19 15:23 ` [RFC][PATCH v2 1/3] Fix unefficient call to memset before memcpu in nla_strlcpy laniel_francis
2020-10-19 15:23 ` [RFC][PATCH v2 2/3] Modify return value of nla_strlcpy to match that of strscpy laniel_francis
2020-10-19 16:43 ` Jakub Kicinski
2020-10-19 23:01 ` Kees Cook
2020-10-19 23:34 ` Jakub Kicinski
2020-10-20 10:28 ` Francis Laniel
2020-10-20 17:23 ` Kees Cook
2020-10-20 17:19 ` Kees Cook
2020-10-20 13:05 ` Francis Laniel
2020-10-20 10:17 ` Francis Laniel
2020-10-19 15:23 ` [RFC][PATCH v2 3/3] Rename nla_strlcpy to nla_strcpy laniel_francis
2020-10-19 16:45 ` [RFC][PATCH v2 0/3] Fix inefficiences and rename nla_strlcpy Jakub Kicinski
2020-10-19 22:58 ` Kees Cook
2020-10-19 23:34 ` Jakub Kicinski
2020-10-20 10:18 ` Francis Laniel [this message]
2020-10-19 23:03 ` Kees Cook
2020-10-20 13:06 ` Francis Laniel
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