Re: [PATCH] s390/cmm: Account for NUL when calculating 'len' in cmm_timeout_handler

[Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@linux.ibm.com>]

On Mon, Dec 15, 2025 at 01:22:14PM +0100, Thorsten Blum wrote:

Hi Thorsten,

> When the input length 'lenp' equals sizeof(buf), the current code copies
> all 64 bytes, but then immediately overwrites the last byte with a NUL
> terminator. Limit the number of bytes to copy to 'sizeof(buf) - 1' to
> reserve space for the NUL terminator.

I see you point, but can not see much of the benefit. Besides,
to me buf[len] = '\0' rings like a past-end-of-the-buffer access
(although it is not, it feels like that on a cursory look).

> Signed-off-by: Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@linux.dev>
> ---
>  arch/s390/mm/cmm.c | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/s390/mm/cmm.c b/arch/s390/mm/cmm.c
> index eb7ef63fab1e..06512bc178a5 100644
> --- a/arch/s390/mm/cmm.c
> +++ b/arch/s390/mm/cmm.c
> @@ -311,9 +311,9 @@ static int cmm_timeout_handler(const struct ctl_table *ctl, int write,
>  	}
>  
>  	if (write) {
> -		len = min(*lenp, sizeof(buf));
> +		len = min(*lenp, sizeof(buf) - 1);
>  		memcpy(buf, buffer, len);
> -		buf[len - 1] = '\0';
> +		buf[len] = '\0';
>  		cmm_skip_blanks(buf, &p);
>  		nr = simple_strtoul(p, &p, 0);
>  		cmm_skip_blanks(p, &p);
> -- 
> Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@linux.dev>

Thanks!