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From: Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@linux.dev>
To: John Johansen <john.johansen@canonical.com>,
	Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>,
	James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>,
	"Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@hallyn.com>
Cc: linux-hardening@vger.kernel.org,
	Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@linux.dev>,
	apparmor@lists.ubuntu.com, linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] apparmor: Replace sprintf/strcpy with scnprintf/strscpy in aa_policy_init
Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2025 18:46:46 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20251011164645.46822-2-thorsten.blum@linux.dev> (raw)

strcpy() is deprecated and sprintf() does not perform bounds checking
either. Although an overflow is unlikely, it's better to proactively
avoid it by using the safer strscpy() and scnprintf(), respectively.

Additionally, unify memory allocation for 'hname' to simplify and
improve aa_policy_init().

Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/88
Signed-off-by: Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@linux.dev>
---
 security/apparmor/lib.c | 16 +++++++---------
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/security/apparmor/lib.c b/security/apparmor/lib.c
index 82dbb97ad406..acf7f5189bec 100644
--- a/security/apparmor/lib.c
+++ b/security/apparmor/lib.c
@@ -478,19 +478,17 @@ bool aa_policy_init(struct aa_policy *policy, const char *prefix,
 		    const char *name, gfp_t gfp)
 {
 	char *hname;
+	size_t hname_sz;
 
+	hname_sz = (prefix ? strlen(prefix) + 2 : 0) + strlen(name) + 1;
 	/* freed by policy_free */
-	if (prefix) {
-		hname = aa_str_alloc(strlen(prefix) + strlen(name) + 3, gfp);
-		if (hname)
-			sprintf(hname, "%s//%s", prefix, name);
-	} else {
-		hname = aa_str_alloc(strlen(name) + 1, gfp);
-		if (hname)
-			strcpy(hname, name);
-	}
+	hname = aa_str_alloc(hname_sz, gfp);
 	if (!hname)
 		return false;
+	if (prefix)
+		scnprintf(hname, hname_sz, "%s//%s", prefix, name);
+	else
+		strscpy(hname, name, hname_sz);
 	policy->hname = hname;
 	/* base.name is a substring of fqname */
 	policy->name = basename(policy->hname);
-- 
2.51.0


             reply	other threads:[~2025-10-11 16:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-10-11 16:46 Thorsten Blum [this message]
2025-10-12 15:07 ` [PATCH] apparmor: Replace sprintf/strcpy with scnprintf/strscpy in aa_policy_init Serge E. Hallyn

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