From: Arnd Bergmann Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2017 13:59:49 +0000 (+0200) Subject: qlge: avoid memcpy buffer overflow X-Git-Tag: v4.13~9^2~43 X-Git-Url: http://review.tizen.org/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=e58f95831e7468d25eb6e41f234842ecfe6f014f;p=platform%2Fkernel%2Flinux-exynos.git qlge: avoid memcpy buffer overflow gcc-8.0.0 (snapshot) points out that we copy a variable-length string into a fixed length field using memcpy() with the destination length, and that ends up copying whatever follows the string: inlined from 'ql_core_dump' at drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qlge/qlge_dbg.c:1106:2: drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qlge/qlge_dbg.c:708:2: error: 'memcpy' reading 15 bytes from a region of size 14 [-Werror=stringop-overflow=] memcpy(seg_hdr->description, desc, (sizeof(seg_hdr->description)) - 1); Changing it to use strncpy() will instead zero-pad the destination, which seems to be the right thing to do here. The bug is probably harmless, but it seems like a good idea to address it in stable kernels as well, if only for the purpose of building with gcc-8 without warnings. Fixes: a61f80261306 ("qlge: Add ethtool register dump function.") Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qlge/qlge_dbg.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qlge/qlge_dbg.c index 28ea0af..e3223f2 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qlge/qlge_dbg.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qlge/qlge_dbg.c @@ -724,7 +724,7 @@ static void ql_build_coredump_seg_header( seg_hdr->cookie = MPI_COREDUMP_COOKIE; seg_hdr->segNum = seg_number; seg_hdr->segSize = seg_size; - memcpy(seg_hdr->description, desc, (sizeof(seg_hdr->description)) - 1); + strncpy(seg_hdr->description, desc, (sizeof(seg_hdr->description)) - 1); } /*