From: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
To: Azeem Shaikh <azeemshaikh38@gmail.com>
Cc: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>,
Jozsef Kadlecsik <kadlec@netfilter.org>,
Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>,
linux-hardening@vger.kernel.org, netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org,
coreteam@netfilter.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] netfilter: ipset: Replace strlcpy with strscpy
Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2023 12:26:28 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <202306131225.6EADAF4@keescook> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230613003437.3538694-1-azeemshaikh38@gmail.com>
On Tue, Jun 13, 2023 at 12:34:37AM +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 from all
> callers of STRLCPY macro were ignored.
Yeah, the macro name is probably not super helpful here. It seems like
it should have originally be named IFNAME_CPY or something.
>
> [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>
But, regardless:
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
--
Kees Cook
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-06-13 19:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-06-13 0:34 [PATCH] netfilter: ipset: Replace strlcpy with strscpy Azeem Shaikh
2023-06-13 19:26 ` Kees Cook [this message]
2023-06-14 12:10 ` Simon Horman
2023-06-16 10:51 ` Jozsef Kadlecsik
2023-06-20 20:28 ` Kees Cook
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