vfs: Replace all non-returning strlcpy with strscpy
authorAzeem Shaikh <azeemshaikh38@gmail.com>
Wed, 10 May 2023 22:11:19 +0000 (22:11 +0000)
committerChristian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Mon, 15 May 2023 07:42:01 +0000 (09:42 +0200)
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@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Message-Id: <20230510221119.3508930-1-azeemshaikh38@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
fs/char_dev.c
fs/super.c

index 13deb45..950b691 100644 (file)
@@ -150,7 +150,7 @@ __register_chrdev_region(unsigned int major, unsigned int baseminor,
        cd->major = major;
        cd->baseminor = baseminor;
        cd->minorct = minorct;
-       strlcpy(cd->name, name, sizeof(cd->name));
+       strscpy(cd->name, name, sizeof(cd->name));
 
        if (!prev) {
                cd->next = curr;
index 34afe41..8d8d687 100644 (file)
@@ -595,7 +595,7 @@ retry:
        fc->s_fs_info = NULL;
        s->s_type = fc->fs_type;
        s->s_iflags |= fc->s_iflags;
-       strlcpy(s->s_id, s->s_type->name, sizeof(s->s_id));
+       strscpy(s->s_id, s->s_type->name, sizeof(s->s_id));
        list_add_tail(&s->s_list, &super_blocks);
        hlist_add_head(&s->s_instances, &s->s_type->fs_supers);
        spin_unlock(&sb_lock);
@@ -674,7 +674,7 @@ retry:
                return ERR_PTR(err);
        }
        s->s_type = type;
-       strlcpy(s->s_id, type->name, sizeof(s->s_id));
+       strscpy(s->s_id, type->name, sizeof(s->s_id));
        list_add_tail(&s->s_list, &super_blocks);
        hlist_add_head(&s->s_instances, &type->fs_supers);
        spin_unlock(&sb_lock);