Re: [PATCH v2 1/6] uaccess: Add copy_from_user_nul helper

[Fushuai Wang <fushuai.wang@linux.dev>]

> I checked the cases you've found, and all them clearly abuse
> copy_from_user(). For example, #2 in tlbflush_write_file():
> 
>         if (copy_from_user(buf, user_buf, len))
>                 return -EFAULT;
> 
>         buf[len] = '\0';
>         if (kstrtoint(buf, 0, &ceiling))
>                 return -EINVAL;
> 
> should be:
>         
>         len = strncpy_from_user(buf, user_buf, len);
>         if (len < 0)
>                 return len;
> 
>         ret = kstrtoint(buf, 0, &ceiling);
>         if (ret)
>                 return ret;
> 
> See, if you use the right API, you don't need this weird
> copy_from_user_nul(). Also notice how nice the original version hides
> possible ERANGE in kstrtoint().
> 
> Patches #3-5 in the series again copy strings with raw non-string API,
> so should be converted to some flavor of strcpy().
> 
> #6 patches lib/kstrtox, which makes little sense because the whole
> purpose of that library is to handle raw pieces of memory as valid
> C strings. One would expect such patterns in library code, and I'd
> prefer having them explicit.
> 
> I find copy_{from,to}_user_nul() useful for objects that must be
> null-terminated, and may have \0 somewhere in the middle. Those are
> not C strings. I suspect this isn't a popular format across the kernel. 
> 
> On the other hand, adding the _nul() version of copy_from_user() would
> make an API abuse like above simpler, which is a bad thing.
> 
> Can you drop copy_from_user_nul() and submit a series that switches
> string manipulations to the dedicated string functions?

OK, I find some misuse of strncpy_from_user() + kstrtoXXX(). I will fix
them.

Regarding patches #3-5, as Steven mentioned, I believe we might need a
strscpy_from_user() for these cases that copy a non-NUL-terminated string
from userspace?

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Regards,
WANG

> Thanks,
> Yury