[PATCH] KEYS: Replace all non-returning strlcpy with strscpy
Jarkko Sakkinen
jarkko at kernel.org
Thu May 18 18:01:01 UTC 2023
On Thu May 18, 2023 at 7:15 AM EEST, Azeem Shaikh wrote:
> 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 */
Reviewed-by: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko at kernel.org>
BR, Jarkko
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