Re: [PATCH] drm/nouveau/nvif: refactor deprecated strncpy

[Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>]

On Thu, Sep 14, 2023 at 09:30:37PM +0000, Justin Stitt wrote:
> `strncpy` is deprecated and as such we should prefer more robust and
> less ambiguous string interfaces.
> 
> A suitable replacement is `strscpy_pad` due to the fact that it
> guarantees NUL-termination on the destination buffer whilst also
> maintaining the NUL-padding behavior that `strncpy` provides. I am not
> sure whether NUL-padding is strictly needed but I see in
> `nvif_object_ctor()` args is memcpy'd elsewhere so I figured we'd keep
> the same functionality.
> 
> Link: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/deprecated.html#strncpy-on-nul-terminated-strings [1]
> Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/90
> Cc: linux-hardening@vger.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Justin Stitt <justinstitt@google.com>
> ---
> Note: build-tested only.
> ---
>  drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nvif/client.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nvif/client.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nvif/client.c
> index a3264a0e933a..3a27245f467f 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nvif/client.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nvif/client.c
> @@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ nvif_client_ctor(struct nvif_client *parent, const char *name, u64 device,
>  	} nop = {};
>  	int ret;
>  
> -	strncpy(args.name, name, sizeof(args.name));
> +	strscpy_pad(args.name, name, sizeof(args.name));
>  	ret = nvif_object_ctor(parent != client ? &parent->object : NULL,
>  			       name ? name : "nvifClient", 0,
>  			       NVIF_CLASS_CLIENT, &args, sizeof(args),

Right, I see the memcpy too:

nvif_object_ctor(struct nvif_object *parent, const char *name, u32 handle,
                 s32 oclass, void *data, u32 size, struct nvif_object *object)
{
	...
                memcpy(args->new.data, data, size);

However, "args" is already zeroed:

        struct nvif_client_v0 args = { .device = device };

So there's no need for _pad(). However, I couldn't immediatley see
why args.name must be %NUL terminated. It's ultimately passed through
an ioctl:

        return client->driver->ioctl(client->object.priv, data, size, hack);

But I did find it...

args is:

struct nvif_client_v0 {
	...
        char  name[32];
};

And "name" only ever comes through nvif_client_ctor(), which all end up
via here, using "cli":

struct nouveau_cli {
	...
        char name[32];
...


        snprintf(cli->name, sizeof(cli->name), "%s", sname);
	...
                ret = nvif_client_ctor(&drm->master.base, cli->name, device,
                                       &cli->base);

So we'll always be %NUL terminated.

Therefore, yes, conversion looks good:

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

Thanks!

-Kees

> 
> ---
> base-commit: 3669558bdf354cd352be955ef2764cde6a9bf5ec
> change-id: 20230914-strncpy-drivers-gpu-drm-nouveau-nvif-client-c-82b023c36953
> 
> Best regards,
> --
> Justin Stitt <justinstitt@google.com>
> 

-- 
Kees Cook