From: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
To: Azeem Shaikh <azeemshaikh38@gmail.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
linux-hardening@vger.kernel.org,
"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4] kobject: Replace strlcpy with strscpy
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2023 11:32:50 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <202308311132.246D40D2@keescook> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230831140104.207019-1-azeemshaikh38@gmail.com>
On Thu, Aug 31, 2023 at 02:01:04PM +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>
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Kees Cook
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2023-08-31 14:01 [PATCH v4] kobject: Replace strlcpy with strscpy Azeem Shaikh
2023-08-31 18:32 ` Kees Cook [this message]
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