netdev - [PATCH 7/7] netfilter: xtables: refactor deprecated strncpy

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Message-ID: <20230808-net-netfilter-v1-7-efbbe4ec60af@google.com>
Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2023 22:48:12 +0000
From: Justin Stitt <justinstitt@...gle.com>
To: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@...filter.org>, Jozsef Kadlecsik <kadlec@...filter.org>, 
	Florian Westphal <fw@...len.de>, "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>, 
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>
Cc: linux-hardening@...r.kernel.org, Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>, 
	netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org, coreteam@...filter.org, 
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, 
	Justin Stitt <justinstitt@...gle.com>
Subject: [PATCH 7/7] netfilter: xtables: refactor deprecated strncpy

Prefer `strscpy` as it's a more robust interface.

There may have existed a bug here due to both `tbl->repl.name` and
`info->name` having a size of 32 as defined below:
|  #define XT_TABLE_MAXNAMELEN 32

This may lead to buffer overreads in some situations -- `strscpy` solves
this by guaranteeing NUL-termination of the dest buffer.

Signed-off-by: Justin Stitt <justinstitt@...gle.com>

---
Note: build tested only
---
 net/netfilter/xt_repldata.h | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/netfilter/xt_repldata.h b/net/netfilter/xt_repldata.h
index 68ccbe50bb1e..63869fd0ec57 100644
--- a/net/netfilter/xt_repldata.h
+++ b/net/netfilter/xt_repldata.h
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@
 	if (tbl == NULL) \
 		return NULL; \
 	term = (struct type##_error *)&(((char *)tbl)[term_offset]); \
-	strncpy(tbl->repl.name, info->name, sizeof(tbl->repl.name)); \
+	strscpy(tbl->repl.name, info->name, sizeof(tbl->repl.name)); \
 	*term = (struct type##_error)typ2##_ERROR_INIT;  \
 	tbl->repl.valid_hooks = hook_mask; \
 	tbl->repl.num_entries = nhooks + 1; \

-- 
2.41.0.640.ga95def55d0-goog