[PATCH] KEYS: Replace all non-returning strlcpy with strscpy

Azeem Shaikh azeemshaikh38 at gmail.com
Thu May 18 04:15:13 UTC 2023


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().
No return values were used, so direct replacement is safe.

[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 at gmail.com>
---
 security/keys/request_key_auth.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/security/keys/request_key_auth.c b/security/keys/request_key_auth.c
index 41e9735006d0..8f33cd170e42 100644
--- a/security/keys/request_key_auth.c
+++ b/security/keys/request_key_auth.c
@@ -178,7 +178,7 @@ struct key *request_key_auth_new(struct key *target, const char *op,
 	if (!rka->callout_info)
 		goto error_free_rka;
 	rka->callout_len = callout_len;
-	strlcpy(rka->op, op, sizeof(rka->op));
+	strscpy(rka->op, op, sizeof(rka->op));
 
 	/* see if the calling process is already servicing the key request of
 	 * another process */



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