linux-kernel - Re: s390 qemu boot failure in -next

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Date:   Tue, 26 Jun 2018 07:40:36 +0200
From:   Thomas Huth <thuth@...hat.com>
To:     Georgi Guninski <guninski@...inski.com>,
        Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@...ibm.com>
Cc:     Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>,
        Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@...ibm.com>,
        Vasily Gorbik <gor@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@...ibm.com>,
        linux-s390@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        qemu-s390x <qemu-s390x@...gnu.org>,
        qemu-devel <qemu-devel@...gnu.org>,
        Cornelia Huck <cohuck@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: s390 qemu boot failure in -next

On 26.06.2018 07:32, Georgi Guninski wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 25, 2018 at 09:27:59AM +0200, Christian Borntraeger wrote:
>> -            /* Overwrite parameters in the kernel image, which are "rom" */
>> -            strcpy(rom_ptr(KERN_PARM_AREA), ipl->cmdline);
> 
>> +            strcpy(rom_ptr(KERN_PARM_AREA), ipl->cmdline);
> 
> Why not replace strcpy() with strncpy() or snprintf()?
> strcpy() may overflow.

This will be fixed by
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2018-06/msg04227.html by
adding a check for a valid size.

 Thomas