linux-kernel - [PATCH v2 1/3] kernfs: Convert kernfs_walk

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Message-Id: <20231130201222.3613535-1-keescook@chromium.org>
Date:   Thu, 30 Nov 2023 12:12:17 -0800
From:   Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
To:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:     Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>, Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>,
        Azeem Shaikh <azeemshaikh38@...il.com>,
        Zefan Li <lizefan.x@...edance.com>,
        Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
        Waiman Long <longman@...hat.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        cgroups@...r.kernel.org, bpf@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-hardening@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH v2 1/3] kernfs: Convert kernfs_walk_ns() from strlcpy() to strscpy()

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].
Additionally, it returns the size of the source string, not the
resulting size of the destination string. In an effort to remove strlcpy()
completely[2], replace strlcpy() here with strscpy().

Link: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/deprecated.html#strlcpy [1]
Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/89 [2]
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
Cc: Azeem Shaikh <azeemshaikh38@...il.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231116192127.1558276-1-keescook@chromium.org
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
---
 fs/kernfs/dir.c | 6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/kernfs/dir.c b/fs/kernfs/dir.c
index 8b2bd65d70e7..37353901ede1 100644
--- a/fs/kernfs/dir.c
+++ b/fs/kernfs/dir.c
@@ -850,16 +850,16 @@ static struct kernfs_node *kernfs_walk_ns(struct kernfs_node *parent,
 					  const unsigned char *path,
 					  const void *ns)
 {
-	size_t len;
+	ssize_t len;
 	char *p, *name;
 
 	lockdep_assert_held_read(&kernfs_root(parent)->kernfs_rwsem);
 
 	spin_lock_irq(&kernfs_pr_cont_lock);
 
-	len = strlcpy(kernfs_pr_cont_buf, path, sizeof(kernfs_pr_cont_buf));
+	len = strscpy(kernfs_pr_cont_buf, path, sizeof(kernfs_pr_cont_buf));
 
-	if (len >= sizeof(kernfs_pr_cont_buf)) {
+	if (len < 0) {
 		spin_unlock_irq(&kernfs_pr_cont_lock);
 		return NULL;
 	}
-- 
2.34.1