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Message-ID: <202310041959.727EB5ED@keescook> Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2023 20:07:55 -0700 From: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org> To: Justin Stitt <justinstitt@...gle.com> Cc: Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>, Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>, Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@...il.com>, "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>, Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-hardening@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: dsa: lan9303: replace deprecated strncpy with memcpy On Thu, Oct 05, 2023 at 12:30:18AM +0000, Justin Stitt wrote: > `strncpy` is deprecated for use on NUL-terminated destination strings > [1] and as such we should prefer more robust and less ambiguous > interfaces. > > Let's opt for memcpy as we are copying strings into slices of length > `ETH_GSTRING_LEN` within the `data` buffer. Other similar get_strings() > implementations [2] [3] use memcpy(). > > Link: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/deprecated.html#strncpy-on-nul-terminated-strings [1] > Link: https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v6.3/source/drivers/infiniband/ulp/opa_vnic/opa_vnic_ethtool.c#L167 [2] > Link: https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v6.3/source/drivers/infiniband/ulp/ipoib/ipoib_ethtool.c#L137 [3] > Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/90 > Cc: linux-hardening@...r.kernel.org > Signed-off-by: Justin Stitt <justinstitt@...gle.com> > --- > Note: build-tested only. > --- > drivers/net/dsa/lan9303-core.c | 4 ++-- > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/drivers/net/dsa/lan9303-core.c b/drivers/net/dsa/lan9303-core.c > index ee67adeb2cdb..665d69384b62 100644 > --- a/drivers/net/dsa/lan9303-core.c > +++ b/drivers/net/dsa/lan9303-core.c > @@ -1013,8 +1013,8 @@ static void lan9303_get_strings(struct dsa_switch *ds, int port, > return; > > for (u = 0; u < ARRAY_SIZE(lan9303_mib); u++) { > - strncpy(data + u * ETH_GSTRING_LEN, lan9303_mib[u].name, > - ETH_GSTRING_LEN); > + memcpy(data + u * ETH_GSTRING_LEN, lan9303_mib[u].name, > + ETH_GSTRING_LEN); This won't work because lan9303_mib entries aren't ETH_GSTRING_LEN-long strings; they're string pointers: static const struct lan9303_mib_desc lan9303_mib[] = { { .offset = LAN9303_MAC_RX_BRDCST_CNT_0, .name = "RxBroad", }, So this really does need a strcpy-family function. And, I think the vnic_gstrings_stats and ipoib_gstrings_stats examples are actually buggy -- they're copying junk into userspace... I am reminded of this patch, which correctly uses strscpy_pad(): https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20230718-net-dsa-strncpy-v1-1-e84664747713@google.com/ I think you want to do the same here, and use strscpy_pad(). And perhaps send some fixes for the other memcpy() users? (Have I mentioned I really dislike the get_strings() API?) -Kees -- Kees Cook
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