Hi Justin,
Thanks for your patch!
On Mon, Sep 11, 2023 at 7:53 PM Justin Stitt <justinst...@google.com> wrote:
> `strncpy` is deprecated for use on NUL-terminated destination strings [1].
>
> `gate_buf` should always be NUL-terminated and does not require
> NUL-padding. It is used as a string arg inside an argv array given to
Can you please explain why it does not require NUL-padding?
It looks like this buffer is passed eventually to a user space
application, thus possibly leaking uninitialized stack data.
> `run_helper()`. Due to this, let's use `strscpy` as it guarantees
> NUL-terminated on the destination buffer preventing potential buffer
> overreads [2].
>
> This exact invocation was changed from `strcpy` to `strncpy` in commit
> 7879b1d94badb ("um,ethertap: use strncpy") back in 2015. Let's continue
> hardening our `str*cpy` apis and use the newer and safer `strscpy`!
>
> Link:
> www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/deprecated.html#strncpy-on-nul-terminated-strings[1]
> Link: https://manpages.debian.org/testing/linux-manual-4.8/strscpy.9.en.html
> [2]
> Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/90
> Cc: linux-harden...@vger.kernel.org
> Cc: Kees Cook <keesc...@chromium.org>
> Signed-off-by: Justin Stitt <justinst...@google.com>
> ---
> arch/um/os-Linux/drivers/ethertap_user.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/um/os-Linux/drivers/ethertap_user.c
> b/arch/um/os-Linux/drivers/ethertap_user.c
> index 9483021d86dd..3363851a4ae8 100644
> --- a/arch/um/os-Linux/drivers/ethertap_user.c
> +++ b/arch/um/os-Linux/drivers/ethertap_user.c
> @@ -105,7 +105,7 @@ static int etap_tramp(char *dev, char *gate, int
> control_me,
> sprintf(data_fd_buf, "%d", data_remote);
> sprintf(version_buf, "%d", UML_NET_VERSION);
> if (gate != NULL) {
> - strncpy(gate_buf, gate, 15);
> + strscpy(gate_buf, gate, sizeof(gate_buf));
> args = setup_args;
> }
> else args = nosetup_args;
>
> ---
> base-commit: 2dde18cd1d8fac735875f2e4987f11817cc0bc2c
> change-id:
> 20230911-strncpy-arch-um-os-linux-drivers-ethertap_user-c-859160d13f59
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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