Re: [PATCH] netfilter: ipset: Replace strlcpy with strscpy

[Jozsef Kadlecsik <kadlec@netfilter.org>]

On Tue, 13 Jun 2023, 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.
> 
> [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>

Acked-by: Jozsef Kadlecsik <kadlec@netfilter.org>

Best regards,
Jozsef

> ---
>  net/netfilter/ipset/ip_set_hash_netiface.c |   10 +++++-----
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/net/netfilter/ipset/ip_set_hash_netiface.c b/net/netfilter/ipset/ip_set_hash_netiface.c
> index 031073286236..95aeb31c60e0 100644
> --- a/net/netfilter/ipset/ip_set_hash_netiface.c
> +++ b/net/netfilter/ipset/ip_set_hash_netiface.c
> @@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ MODULE_ALIAS("ip_set_hash:net,iface");
>  #define IP_SET_HASH_WITH_MULTI
>  #define IP_SET_HASH_WITH_NET0
>  
> -#define STRLCPY(a, b)	strlcpy(a, b, IFNAMSIZ)
> +#define STRSCPY(a, b)	strscpy(a, b, IFNAMSIZ)
>  
>  /* IPv4 variant */
>  
> @@ -182,11 +182,11 @@ hash_netiface4_kadt(struct ip_set *set, const struct sk_buff *skb,
>  
>  		if (!eiface)
>  			return -EINVAL;
> -		STRLCPY(e.iface, eiface);
> +		STRSCPY(e.iface, eiface);
>  		e.physdev = 1;
>  #endif
>  	} else {
> -		STRLCPY(e.iface, SRCDIR ? IFACE(in) : IFACE(out));
> +		STRSCPY(e.iface, SRCDIR ? IFACE(in) : IFACE(out));
>  	}
>  
>  	if (strlen(e.iface) == 0)
> @@ -400,11 +400,11 @@ hash_netiface6_kadt(struct ip_set *set, const struct sk_buff *skb,
>  
>  		if (!eiface)
>  			return -EINVAL;
> -		STRLCPY(e.iface, eiface);
> +		STRSCPY(e.iface, eiface);
>  		e.physdev = 1;
>  #endif
>  	} else {
> -		STRLCPY(e.iface, SRCDIR ? IFACE(in) : IFACE(out));
> +		STRSCPY(e.iface, SRCDIR ? IFACE(in) : IFACE(out));
>  	}
>  
>  	if (strlen(e.iface) == 0)
> -- 
> 2.41.0.162.gfafddb0af9-goog
> 
> 
> 

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