linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] IB/hfi1: replace deprecated strncpy

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Message-ID: <a3b6e914-7469-42d7-81c8-9775715b263e@cornelisnetworks.com>
Date:   Tue, 26 Sep 2023 07:56:34 -0500
From:   Dean Luick <dean.luick@...nelisnetworks.com>
To:     Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
Cc:     Leon Romanovsky <leon@...nel.org>,
        Dennis Dalessandro <dennis.dalessandro@...nelisnetworks.com>,
        Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...pe.ca>,
        Justin Stitt <justinstitt@...gle.com>,
        linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-hardening@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] IB/hfi1: replace deprecated strncpy

On 9/23/2023 10:20 PM, Kees Cook wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 22, 2023 at 09:25:39AM -0500, Dean Luick wrote:
>> On 9/22/2023 5:29 AM, Leon Romanovsky wrote:
>>>
>>> On Thu, 21 Sep 2023 07:17:47 +0000, Justin Stitt wrote:
>>>> `strncpy` is deprecated for use on NUL-terminated destination strings
>>>> [1] and as such we should prefer more robust and less ambiguous string
>>>> interfaces.
>>>>
>>>> We see that `buf` is expected to be NUL-terminated based on it's use
>>>> within a trace event wherein `is_misc_err_name` and `is_various_name`
>>>> map to `is_name` through `is_table`:
>>>> | TRACE_EVENT(hfi1_interrupt,
>>>> |        TP_PROTO(struct hfi1_devdata *dd, const struct is_table *is_entry,
>>>> |                 int src),
>>>> |        TP_ARGS(dd, is_entry, src),
>>>> |        TP_STRUCT__entry(DD_DEV_ENTRY(dd)
>>>> |                         __array(char, buf, 64)
>>>> |                         __field(int, src)
>>>> |                         ),
>>>> |        TP_fast_assign(DD_DEV_ASSIGN(dd);
>>>> |                       is_entry->is_name(__entry->buf, 64,
>>>> |                                         src - is_entry->start);
>>>> |                       __entry->src = src;
>>>> |                       ),
>>>> |        TP_printk("[%s] source: %s [%d]", __get_str(dev), __entry->buf,
>>>> |                  __entry->src)
>>>> | );
>>>>
>>>> [...]
>>>
>>> Applied, thanks!
>>
>> It is unfortunate that this and the qib patch was accepted so quickly.  The replacement is functionally correct.  However, I was going to suggest using strscpy() since the return value is never looked at and all use cases only require a NUL-terminated string.  Padding is not needed.
>
> Is the trace buffer already guaranteed to be zeroed? Since this is
> defined as a fixed-size string in the buffer, it made sense to me to be
> sure that the unused bytes were 0 before copying them to userspace.

I was not aware that binary trace records were exposed to user space.  If so, and the event records are not zeroed (either the buffer as a whole, or individual records), then strscpy_pad() is the correct solution.  My quick review of the tracing system suggests that nothing is zeroed and the record is embedded in a larger structure.  However, this begs the question for all users of tracing: Aren't alignment holes in the fast assign record a leak?

-Dean

>
> -Kees
>
>>
>>>
>>> [1/1] IB/hfi1: replace deprecated strncpy
>>>       https://git.kernel.org/rdma/rdma/c/c2d0c5b28a77d5
>>>
>>> Best regards,
>>
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>

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