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From: Sergey Shtylyov <sergei.shtylyov@gmail.com>
To: Pengpeng Hou <pengpeng@iscas.ac.cn>,
	Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@alpha.franken.de>
Cc: linux-mips@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] MIPS: validate DT bootargs before appending them
Date: Fri, 3 Apr 2026 10:58:32 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <591cb5e6-26aa-4ed0-9298-5fc4c9742071@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260403161001.1-mips-dt-bootargs-pengpeng@iscas.ac.cn>

On 4/3/26 8:41 AM, Pengpeng Hou wrote:

> bootcmdline_scan_chosen() fetches the raw flat-DT bootargs property and
> passes it straight to bootcmdline_append(). That helper later feeds the
> same pointer into strlcat(), which computes strlen(src) before copying.
> Flat DT properties are external boot input, and this path does not
> prove that bootargs is NUL-terminated within its declared bounds.
> 
> Reject unterminated bootargs properties before appending them to the
> kernel command line.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Pengpeng Hou <pengpeng@iscas.ac.cn>
> ---
>  arch/mips/kernel/setup.c | 4 ++++
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/mips/kernel/setup.c b/arch/mips/kernel/setup.c
> index f9b228e33f3b..dd7915110820 100644
> --- a/arch/mips/kernel/setup.c
> +++ b/arch/mips/kernel/setup.c
[...]
> @@ -541,6 +542,9 @@ static int __init bootcmdline_scan_chosen(unsigned long node, const char *uname,
>  
>  	p = of_get_flat_dt_prop(node, "bootargs", &l);
>  	if (p != NULL && l > 0) {
> +		if (!memchr(p, '\0', l))

   Maybe strnlen()?

[...]

MBR, Sergey


  reply	other threads:[~2026-04-03  7:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-04-03  5:41 [PATCH] MIPS: validate DT bootargs before appending them Pengpeng Hou
2026-04-03  7:58 ` Sergey Shtylyov [this message]
2026-04-07  1:57 ` [PATCH v2] " Pengpeng Hou
2026-04-13 13:43   ` Thomas Bogendoerfer
2026-04-07  3:30 ` [PATCH] " Pengpeng Hou

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