linux-kernel - [PATCH 3.16 40/99] perf svghelper: Fix unchecked usage of strncpy()

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Message-ID: <lsq.1554212307.805007293@decadent.org.uk>
Date:   Tue, 02 Apr 2019 14:38:27 +0100
From:   Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org
CC:     akpm@...ux-foundation.org, Denis Kirjanov <kda@...ux-powerpc.org>,
        "Arjan van de Ven" <arjan@...ux.intel.com>,
        "Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo" <acme@...hat.com>,
        "Jiri Olsa" <jolsa@...nel.org>,
        "Adrian Hunter" <adrian.hunter@...el.com>,
        "Namhyung Kim" <namhyung@...nel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 3.16 40/99] perf svghelper: Fix unchecked usage of strncpy()

3.16.65-rc1 review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

------------------

From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...hat.com>

commit 2f5302533f306d5ee87bd375aef9ca35b91762cb upstream.

The strncpy() function may leave the destination string buffer
unterminated, better use strlcpy() that we have a __weak fallback
implementation for systems without it.

In this specific case this would only happen if fgets() was buggy, as
its man page states that it should read one less byte than the size of
the destination buffer, so that it can put the nul byte at the end of
it, so it would never copy 255 non-nul chars, as fgets reads into the
orig buffer at most 254 non-nul chars and terminates it. But lets just
switch to strlcpy to keep the original intent and silence the gcc 8.2
warning.

This fixes this warning on an Alpine Linux Edge system with gcc 8.2:

  In function 'cpu_model',
      inlined from 'svg_cpu_box' at util/svghelper.c:378:2:
  util/svghelper.c:337:5: error: 'strncpy' output may be truncated copying 255 bytes from a string of length 255 [-Werror=stringop-truncation]
       strncpy(cpu_m, &buf[13], 255);
       ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@...el.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...nel.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...ux.intel.com>
Fixes: f48d55ce7871 ("perf: Add a SVG helper library file")
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-xzkoo0gyr56gej39ltivuh9g@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...hat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
---
 tools/perf/util/svghelper.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/tools/perf/util/svghelper.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/svghelper.c
@@ -257,7 +257,7 @@ static char *cpu_model(void)
 	if (file) {
 		while (fgets(buf, 255, file)) {
 			if (strstr(buf, "model name")) {
-				strncpy(cpu_m, &buf[13], 255);
+				strlcpy(cpu_m, &buf[13], 255);
 				break;
 			}
 		}