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From: Francis Laniel <laniel_francis@privacyrequired.com>
To: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: linux-hardening@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	davem@davemloft.net, kuba@kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 2/3] Modify return value of nla_strlcpy to match that of strscpy.
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2020 10:38:33 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3167137.UV11EXrnFd@machine> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <202010301217.7EF0009E83@keescook>

Le vendredi 30 octobre 2020, 20:25:38 CET Kees Cook a écrit :
> On Fri, Oct 30, 2020 at 04:36:46PM +0100, laniel_francis@privacyrequired.com 
wrote:
> > diff --git a/net/sched/sch_api.c b/net/sched/sch_api.c
> > index 2a76a2f5ed88..f9b053b30a7b 100644
> > --- a/net/sched/sch_api.c
> > +++ b/net/sched/sch_api.c
> > @@ -1170,7 +1170,7 @@ static struct Qdisc *qdisc_create(struct net_device
> > *dev,> 
> >  #ifdef CONFIG_MODULES
> >  
> >  	if (ops == NULL && kind != NULL) {
> >  	
> >  		char name[IFNAMSIZ];
> > 
> > -		if (nla_strlcpy(name, kind, IFNAMSIZ) < IFNAMSIZ) {
> > +		if (nla_strlcpy(name, kind, IFNAMSIZ) > 0) {
> > 
> >  			/* We dropped the RTNL semaphore in order to
> >  			
> >  			 * perform the module load.  So, even if we
> >  			 * succeeded in loading the module we have to
> 
> Oops, I think this should be >= 0 ?

Good catch! I will modify this, rebase my patch on top of master, test it a 
bit more than what I did for the v4 and push  v5!




  reply	other threads:[~2020-11-13  9:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-10-30 15:36 [PATCH v4 0/3] Fix inefficiences and rename nla_strlcpy laniel_francis
2020-10-30 15:36 ` [PATCH v4 1/3] Fix unefficient call to memset before memcpu in nla_strlcpy laniel_francis
2020-10-30 15:36 ` [PATCH v4 2/3] Modify return value of nla_strlcpy to match that of strscpy laniel_francis
2020-10-30 19:25   ` Kees Cook
2020-11-13  9:38     ` Francis Laniel [this message]
2020-10-30 15:36 ` [PATCH v4 3/3] treewide: rename nla_strlcpy to nla_strscpy laniel_francis

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