From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.2 required=3.0 tests=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_PASS,URIBL_BLOCKED,USER_AGENT_MUTT autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 718CFECDFB3 for ; Mon, 16 Jul 2018 11:42:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 25F79208C3 for ; Mon, 16 Jul 2018 11:42:25 +0000 (UTC) DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.3.2 mail.kernel.org 25F79208C3 Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=codewreck.org Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; spf=none smtp.mailfrom=linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1731086AbeGPMJ0 (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Jul 2018 08:09:26 -0400 Received: from nautica.notk.org ([91.121.71.147]:36062 "EHLO nautica.notk.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1728195AbeGPMJ0 (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Jul 2018 08:09:26 -0400 Received: by nautica.notk.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 95CAEC009; Mon, 16 Jul 2018 13:42:21 +0200 (CEST) Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2018 13:42:06 +0200 From: Dominique Martinet To: Jonathan Cameron Cc: Hartmut Knaack , Lars-Peter Clausen , Peter Meerwald-Stadler , Lorenzo Bianconi , Linus Walleij , linux-iio@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 05/18] iio: change strncpy+truncation to strlcpy Message-ID: <20180716114206.GA20555@nautica> References: <1531444483-17338-1-git-send-email-asmadeus@codewreck.org> <1531445134-19250-1-git-send-email-asmadeus@codewreck.org> <20180715113907.3813384d@archlinux> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <20180715113907.3813384d@archlinux> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Jonathan Cameron wrote on Sun, Jul 15, 2018: > On Fri, 13 Jul 2018 03:25:34 +0200 > Dominique Martinet wrote: > > Generated by scripts/coccinelle/misc/strncpy_truncation.cocci > > > > Signed-off-by: Dominique Martinet > > Applied to the togreg branch of iio.git and pushed out as testing > for the autobuilders to play with it. Thanks! I have been pointed out that strlcpy, unlike strncpy, will read past the size given in the input string and thus is Badâ„¢ if the input string is not nul terminated. After taking the time to check I believe this should not happen as the original name seems to come from a dentry's d_name after proper preparation (a buffer is allocated precisely for this purpose), but it will not hurt to wait for that version. The second reason I was waiting is that I intended to check for each patch if it is safe to not pad the end of the string with zeroes (to avoid e.g. information leaks) and that seems OK as well here after a quick check but I wouldn't trust my own eyes this late so I'll let you be judge of that if you feel like taking v1 anyway. Otherwise, I'll recheck properly and submit a v2 with strscpy and a better commit message after the coccinelle script is taken for inclusion and doing a better check but this might take a while longer. Thanks, -- Dominique Martinet