linux-kernel - [PATCH 4.17 08/56] tracing: Avoid string overflow

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Message-Id: <20180710182503.907963075@linuxfoundation.org>
Date:   Tue, 10 Jul 2018 20:24:50 +0200
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        stable@...r.kernel.org, Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@...ux.intel.com>,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        "Steven Rostedt (VMware)" <rostedt@...dmis.org>
Subject: [PATCH 4.17 08/56] tracing: Avoid string overflow

4.17-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>

commit cf4d418e653afc84c9c873236033e06be5d58f1c upstream.

'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.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180328140920.2842153-1-arnd@arndb.de

Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org
Fixes: f404da6e1d46 ("tracing: Add 'last error' error facility for hist triggers")
Acked-by: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@...ux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@...dmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>

---
 kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- 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, ch
 	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);
 }