From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
To: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: mhiramat@kernel.org, ebiggers@kernel.org,
azeemshaikh38@gmail.com, linux-trace-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-hardening@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] tracing/boot: Replace strlcpy with strscpy
Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2023 16:33:25 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20230620163325.35c9203c@gandalf.local.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <168729290245.455922.11993639418267016143.b4-ty@chromium.org>
On Tue, 20 Jun 2023 13:28:26 -0700
Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> wrote:
> On Thu, 15 Jun 2023 18:04:20 +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().
> >
> > [...]
>
> Applied to for-next/hardening, thanks!
>
> [1/1] tracing/boot: Replace strlcpy with strscpy
> https://git.kernel.org/kees/c/b1c38314f756
>
I was going to add this to my queue.
-- Steve
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-06-20 20:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-06-15 18:04 [PATCH v2] tracing/boot: Replace strlcpy with strscpy Azeem Shaikh
2023-06-18 22:30 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2023-06-20 20:28 ` Kees Cook
2023-06-20 20:33 ` Steven Rostedt [this message]
2023-06-20 20:35 ` Kees Cook
2023-07-04 13:42 ` Steven Rostedt
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