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From: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
To: Dinh Nguyen <dinguyen@kernel.org>, Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Azeem Shaikh <azeemshaikh38@gmail.com>,
	linux-hardening@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] nios2: Replace all non-returning strlcpy with strscpy
Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2023 17:14:57 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E72EB2A4-7165-47ED-B5D2-8F468B281FA3@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <40af3815-b0ee-e96f-f7a8-9f0fe9f938d0@kernel.org>

On June 20, 2023 3:27:29 PM PDT, Dinh Nguyen <dinguyen@kernel.org> wrote:
>
>
>On 6/20/23 15:15, Kees Cook wrote:
>> On Tue, Jun 13, 2023 at 05:15:41PM -0500, Dinh Nguyen wrote:
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On 5/30/23 18:20, Kees Cook wrote:
>>>> On Tue, May 30, 2023 at 04:23:58PM +0000, Azeem Shaikh wrote:
>>>>> strlcpy() reads the entire source buffer first.
>>>>> This read may exceed the destination size limit.
>>>>> This is both inefficient and can lead to linear read
>>>>> overflows if a source string is not NUL-terminated [1].
>>>>> In an effort to remove strlcpy() completely [2], replace
>>>>> strlcpy() here with strscpy().
>>>>> No return values were used, so direct replacement is safe.
>>>>> 
>>>>> [1] https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/deprecated.html#strlcpy
>>>>> [2] https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/89
>>>>> 
>>>>> Signed-off-by: Azeem Shaikh <azeemshaikh38@gmail.com>
>>>> 
>>>> Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> Applied!
>> 
>> Thanks for taking this patch! I just wanted to double-check, though; I
>> haven't seen it show up in -next yet. Is this still queued?
>> 
>> Thanks!
>
>I've queued it for v6.5. Do you need it in v6.4?

6.5 is fine, yeah. I just wanted to make sure it didn't get lost. :) (I didn't see it in sfr's linux-next merges tree.)

Thanks!

-Kees



-- 
Kees Cook

      reply	other threads:[~2023-06-21  0:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-05-30 16:23 [PATCH] nios2: Replace all non-returning strlcpy with strscpy Azeem Shaikh
2023-05-30 23:20 ` Kees Cook
2023-06-13 22:15   ` Dinh Nguyen
2023-06-20 20:15     ` Kees Cook
2023-06-20 22:27       ` Dinh Nguyen
2023-06-21  0:14         ` Kees Cook [this message]

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