linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] tracing: avoid string overflow

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Date:   Mon, 2 Apr 2018 11:28:03 -0400
From:   Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To:     Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Cc:     Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@...ux.intel.com>,
        Rajvi Jingar <rajvi.jingar@...el.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tracing: avoid string overflow

On Wed, 28 Mar 2018 16:09:10 +0200
Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de> wrote:

> 'err' is used as a NUL-terminated string, but using strncpy() with the length
> equal to the buffer size may result in lack of the termination:
> 
> kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c: In function 'hist_err_event':
> kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c:396:3: error: 'strncpy' specified bound 256 equals destination size [-Werror=stringop-truncation]
>    strncpy(err, var, MAX_FILTER_STR_VAL);
> 
> This changes it to use the safer strscpy() instead.
> 
> Fixes: f404da6e1d46 ("tracing: Add 'last error' error facility for hist triggers")
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>

Thanks! I pulled this in and will push it to git after testing has
succeeded.

-- Steve

> ---
>  kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c b/kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c
> index 4f027642ceef..8357f36d7a1e 100644
> --- a/kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c
> +++ b/kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c
> @@ -393,7 +393,7 @@ static void hist_err_event(char *str, char *system, char *event, char *var)
>  	else if (system)
>  		snprintf(err, MAX_FILTER_STR_VAL, "%s.%s", system, event);
>  	else
> -		strncpy(err, var, MAX_FILTER_STR_VAL);
> +		strscpy(err, var, MAX_FILTER_STR_VAL);
>  
>  	hist_err(str, err);
>  }