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Message-ID: <202308311141.612BF8D@keescook>
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2023 11:42:15 -0700
From: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
To: Azeem Shaikh <azeemshaikh38@...il.com>
Cc: "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>,
linux-hardening@...r.kernel.org, linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org,
target-devel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] scsi: target: Replace strlcpy with strscpy
On Thu, Aug 31, 2023 at 02:36:38PM +0000, Azeem Shaikh wrote:
> strlcpy() reads the entire source buffer first.
> This read may exceed the destination size limit.
> This is both inefficient and can lead to linear read
> overflows if a source string is not NUL-terminated [1].
> In an effort to remove strlcpy() completely [2], replace
> strlcpy() here with strscpy().
>
> Direct replacement is safe here since return value of -errno
> is used to check for truncation instead of sizeof(dest).
>
> [1] https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/deprecated.html#strlcpy
> [2] https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/89
>
> Signed-off-by: Azeem Shaikh <azeemshaikh38@...il.com>
> ---
> v3:
> * Address readability comment.
>
> v2:
> * Replace all instances of strlcpy in this file instead of just 1.
> * https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230830210724.4156575-1-azeemshaikh38@gmail.com/
>
> v1:
> * https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230830200717.4129442-1-azeemshaikh38@gmail.com/
>
> drivers/target/target_core_configfs.c | 24 ++++++++++++------------
> 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/target/target_core_configfs.c b/drivers/target/target_core_configfs.c
> index 936e5ff1b209..d5860c1c1f46 100644
> --- a/drivers/target/target_core_configfs.c
> +++ b/drivers/target/target_core_configfs.c
> @@ -1392,16 +1392,16 @@ static ssize_t target_wwn_vendor_id_store(struct config_item *item,
> /* +2 to allow for a trailing (stripped) '\n' and null-terminator */
> unsigned char buf[INQUIRY_VENDOR_LEN + 2];
> char *stripped = NULL;
> - size_t len;
> + ssize_t len;
> ssize_t ret;
>
> - len = strlcpy(buf, page, sizeof(buf));
> - if (len < sizeof(buf)) {
> + len = strscpy(buf, page, sizeof(buf));
> + if (len > 0) {
> /* Strip any newline added from userspace. */
> stripped = strstrip(buf);
> len = strlen(stripped);
> }
> - if (len > INQUIRY_VENDOR_LEN) {
> + if (len < 0 || len > INQUIRY_VENDOR_LEN) {
Agh, sorry I missed this before: the first "if" needs to be "len >= 0"
otherwise this:
ret = target_check_inquiry_data(stripped);
will be passing a NULL pointer...
--
Kees Cook
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