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Message-ID: <CAEf4BzYNGXxCJhsj+xQL0ANxFDOPFQ5=k9Y23GUg83+HLK4ARg@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2025 11:46:57 -0700
From: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii.nakryiko@...il.com>
To: Rong Tao <rtoax@...mail.com>
Cc: vmalik@...hat.com, ast@...nel.org, daniel@...earbox.net, 
	Rong Tao <rongtao@...tc.cn>, Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@...nel.org>, 
	Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@...ux.dev>, Eduard Zingerman <eddyz87@...il.com>, Song Liu <song@...nel.org>, 
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	Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...nel.org>, Mykola Lysenko <mykolal@...com>, Shuah Khan <shuah@...nel.org>, 
	"open list:BPF [GENERAL] (Safe Dynamic Programs and Tools)" <bpf@...r.kernel.org>, open list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, 
	"open list:KERNEL SELFTEST FRAMEWORK" <linux-kselftest@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH bpf-next v5 1/2] bpf/helpers: bpf_strnstr: Exact match length

On Fri, Aug 29, 2025 at 9:32 AM Rong Tao <rtoax@...mail.com> wrote:
>
> From: Rong Tao <rongtao@...tc.cn>
>

I reworded patch subject a bit, please check the final version

> strnstr should not treat the ending '\0' of s2 as a matching character
> if the parameter 'len' equal to s2 string length, for example:
>
>     1. bpf_strnstr("openat", "open", 4) = -ENOENT
>     2. bpf_strnstr("openat", "open", 5) = 0
>
> This patch makes (1) return 0, fix just the `len == strlen(s2)` case.
>
> And fix a more general case when s2 is a suffix of the first len
> characters of s1.
>
> Fixes: e91370550f1f ("bpf: Add kfuncs for read-only string operations")
> Signed-off-by: Rong Tao <rongtao@...tc.cn>
> ---
>  kernel/bpf/helpers.c | 9 ++++++++-
>  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/kernel/bpf/helpers.c b/kernel/bpf/helpers.c
> index 401b4932cc49..91ad124844ae 100644
> --- a/kernel/bpf/helpers.c
> +++ b/kernel/bpf/helpers.c
> @@ -3672,10 +3672,17 @@ __bpf_kfunc int bpf_strnstr(const char *s1__ign, const char *s2__ign, size_t len
>
>         guard(pagefault)();
>         for (i = 0; i < XATTR_SIZE_MAX; i++) {
> -               for (j = 0; i + j < len && j < XATTR_SIZE_MAX; j++) {
> +               for (j = 0; i + j <= len && j < XATTR_SIZE_MAX; j++) {
>                         __get_kernel_nofault(&c2, s2__ign + j, char, err_out);
>                         if (c2 == '\0')
>                                 return i;
> +                       /**

fixed up comment style (extra *) when applying to bpf tree, thanks.


> +                        * We allow reading an extra byte from s2 (note the
> +                        * `i + j <= len` above) to cover the case when s2 is
> +                        * a suffix of the first len chars of s1.
> +                        */
> +                       if (i + j == len)
> +                               break;
>                         __get_kernel_nofault(&c1, s1__ign + j, char, err_out);
>                         if (c1 == '\0')
>                                 return -ENOENT;
> --
> 2.51.0
>

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