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[24.9.64.241]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id 7sm3712035oth.38.2021.02.22.08.36.51 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 bits=128/128); Mon, 22 Feb 2021 08:36:53 -0800 (PST) Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/20] Manual replacement of all strlcpy in favor of strscpy To: Romain Perier , Kees Cook , kernel-hardening@lists.openwall.com, Tejun Heo , Zefan Li , Johannes Weiner , Herbert Xu , "David S. Miller" , Jiri Pirko , Sumit Semwal , =?UTF-8?Q?Christian_K=c3=b6nig?= , Greg Kroah-Hartman , Mimi Zohar , Dmitry Kasatkin , "J. Bruce Fields" , Chuck Lever , Geert Uytterhoeven , Jessica Yu , Guenter Roeck , Heiko Carstens , Vasily Gorbik , Christian Borntraeger , Steffen Maier , Benjamin Block , "Martin K. Petersen" , Jaroslav Kysela , Takashi Iwai , Steven Rostedt , Ingo Molnar , Jiri Slaby , Felipe Balbi , Valentina Manea , Shuah Khan , Wim Van Sebroeck Cc: cgroups@vger.kernel.org, linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-media@vger.kernel.org, dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org, linaro-mm-sig@lists.linaro.org, "Rafael J. Wysocki" , linux-integrity@vger.kernel.org, linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org, linux-m68k@lists.linux-m68k.org, linux-hwmon@vger.kernel.org, linux-s390@vger.kernel.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, target-devel@vger.kernel.org, alsa-devel@alsa-project.org, linux-usb@vger.kernel.org, linux-watchdog@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Shuah Khan References: <20210222151231.22572-1-romain.perier@gmail.com> From: Shuah Khan Message-ID: <936bcf5e-2006-7643-7804-9efa318b3e2b@linuxfoundation.org> Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2021 09:36:51 -0700 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.6.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20210222151231.22572-1-romain.perier@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-watchdog@vger.kernel.org On 2/22/21 8:12 AM, Romain Perier wrote: > strlcpy() copy a C-String into a sized buffer, the result is always a > valid NULL-terminated that fits in the buffer, howerver it has severals > issues. It reads the source buffer first, which is dangerous if it is non > NULL-terminated or if the corresponding buffer is unbounded. Its safe > replacement is strscpy(), as suggested in the deprecated interface [1]. > > We plan to make this contribution in two steps: > - Firsly all cases of strlcpy's return value are manually replaced by the > corresponding calls of strscpy() with the new handling of the return > value (as the return code is different in case of error). > - Then all other cases are automatically replaced by using coccinelle. > Cool. A quick check shows me 1031 strscpy() calls with no return checks. All or some of these probably need to be reviewed and add return checks. Is this something that is in the plan to address as part of this work? thanks, -- Shuah