Re: [PATCH 1/5] string.h: Introduce memtostr() and memtostr_pad()

Kees Cook
2024-04-24T15:59:35Z

On Tue, Apr 09, 2024 at 07:31:50PM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> Another ambiguous use of strncpy() is to copy from strings that may not
> be NUL-terminated. These cases depend on having the destination buffer
> be explicitly larger than the source buffer's maximum size, having
> the size of the copy exactly match the source buffer's maximum size,
> and for the destination buffer to get explicitly NUL terminated.
>
> This usually happens when parsing protocols or hardware character arrays
> that are not guaranteed to be NUL-terminated. The code pattern is
> effectively this:
>
> char dest[sizeof(src) + 1];
>
> strncpy(dest, src, sizeof(src));
> dest[sizeof(dest) - 1] = '\0';
>
> In practice it usually looks like:
>
> struct from_hardware {
> ...
> char name[HW_NAME_SIZE] __nonstring;
> ...
> };
>
> struct from_hardware *p = ...;
> char name[HW_NAME_SIZE + 1];
>
> strncpy(name, p->name, HW_NAME_SIZE);
> name[NW_NAME_SIZE] = '\0';
>
> This cannot be replaced with:
>
> strscpy(name, p->name, sizeof(name));
>
> because p->name is smaller and not NUL-terminated, so FORTIFY will
> trigger when strnlen(p->name, sizeof(name)) is used. And it cannot be
> replaced with:
>
> strscpy(name, p->name, sizeof(p->name));
>
> because then "name" may contain a 1 character early truncation of
> p->name.
>
> Provide an unambiguous interface for converting a maybe not-NUL-terminated
> string to a NUL-terminated string, with compile-time buffer size checking
> so that it can never fail at runtime: memtostr() and memtostr_pad(). Also
> add KUnit tests for both.
>
> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>

FYI,

As the string KUnit tests have seen some refactoring, I'm taking this
patch and refactoring it onto my tree. Once the SCSI fixes are reviewed, if
we want to land them in -next, it's probably easiest for them to go via
my tree.

-Kees

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Kees Cook