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 <[email protected]> Cc: Tejun Heo <[email protected]> Cc: Azeem Shaikh <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <[email protected]> --- 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
