linux-hardening - Re: [PATCH v4 2/3] Modify return value of nla

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Date:   Fri, 30 Oct 2020 12:25:38 -0700
From:   Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
To:     laniel_francis@...vacyrequired.com
Cc:     linux-hardening@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        davem@...emloft.net, kuba@...nel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 2/3] Modify return value of nla_strlcpy to match that
 of strscpy.

On Fri, Oct 30, 2020 at 04:36:46PM +0100, laniel_francis@...vacyrequired.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 ?

-- 
Kees Cook