[PATCH] m68k/atari: Replace strlcpy with strscpy

[PATCH] m68k/atari: Replace strlcpy with strscpy

[Azeem Shaikh]

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().

Direct replacement is safe here since return value of -errno
is used to check for truncation instead of sizeof(dest).

[1] https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/deprecated.html#strlcpy
[2] https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/89

Signed-off-by: Azeem Shaikh <azeemshaikh38@gmail.com>
---
 arch/m68k/emu/natfeat.c |    6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/m68k/emu/natfeat.c b/arch/m68k/emu/natfeat.c
index b19dc00026d9..d124c62022c2 100644
--- a/arch/m68k/emu/natfeat.c
+++ b/arch/m68k/emu/natfeat.c
@@ -42,10 +42,10 @@ long nf_get_id(const char *feature_name)
 {
 	/* feature_name may be in vmalloc()ed memory, so make a copy */
 	char name_copy[32];
-	size_t n;
+	ssize_t n;

-	n = strlcpy(name_copy, feature_name, sizeof(name_copy));
-	if (n >= sizeof(name_copy))
+	n = strscpy(name_copy, feature_name, sizeof(name_copy));
+	if (n < 0)
 		return 0;

 	return nf_get_id_phys(virt_to_phys(name_copy));
--
2.42.0.283.g2d96d420d3-goog

Re: [PATCH] m68k/atari: Replace strlcpy with strscpy

[Kees Cook]

On Wed, Aug 30, 2023 at 06:54:28PM +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().
> 
> Direct replacement is safe here since return value of -errno
> is used to check for truncation instead of sizeof(dest).
> 
> [1] https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/deprecated.html#strlcpy
> [2] https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/89
> 
> Signed-off-by: Azeem Shaikh <azeemshaikh38@gmail.com>

Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>

-- 
Kees Cook

Re: [PATCH] m68k/atari: Replace strlcpy with strscpy

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

On Wed, Aug 30, 2023 at 8:54 PM Azeem Shaikh <azeemshaikh38@gmail.com> 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().
>
> Direct replacement is safe here since return value of -errno
> is used to check for truncation instead of sizeof(dest).
>
> [1] https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/deprecated.html#strlcpy
> [2] https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/89
>
> Signed-off-by: Azeem Shaikh <azeemshaikh38@gmail.com>

Reviewed-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
i.e. will queue in the m68k for-v6.7 branch.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert


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