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[08/11] blktrace: convert strncpy() to strscpy_pad()

Message ID 20240328140512.4148825-9-arnd@kernel.org (mailing list archive)
State New, archived
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Series address remaining stringop-truncation warnings | expand

Commit Message

Arnd Bergmann March 28, 2024, 2:04 p.m. UTC
From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>

gcc-9 warns about a possibly non-terminated string copy:

kernel/trace/blktrace.c: In function 'do_blk_trace_setup':
kernel/trace/blktrace.c:527:2: error: 'strncpy' specified bound 32 equals destination size [-Werror=stringop-truncation]

Newer versions are fine here because they see the following explicit
nul-termination. Using strscpy_pad() avoids the warning and
simplifies the code a little. The padding helps  give a clean
buffer to userspace.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
---
 kernel/trace/blktrace.c | 3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

Comments

Steven Rostedt March 28, 2024, 2:14 p.m. UTC | #1
On Thu, 28 Mar 2024 15:04:52 +0100
Arnd Bergmann <arnd@kernel.org> wrote:

> From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
> 
> gcc-9 warns about a possibly non-terminated string copy:
> 
> kernel/trace/blktrace.c: In function 'do_blk_trace_setup':
> kernel/trace/blktrace.c:527:2: error: 'strncpy' specified bound 32 equals destination size [-Werror=stringop-truncation]
> 
> Newer versions are fine here because they see the following explicit
> nul-termination. Using strscpy_pad() avoids the warning and
> simplifies the code a little. The padding helps  give a clean
> buffer to userspace.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
> ---
>  kernel/trace/blktrace.c | 3 +--
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/kernel/trace/blktrace.c b/kernel/trace/blktrace.c
> index d5d94510afd3..95a00160d465 100644
> --- a/kernel/trace/blktrace.c
> +++ b/kernel/trace/blktrace.c
> @@ -524,8 +524,7 @@ static int do_blk_trace_setup(struct request_queue *q, char *name, dev_t dev,
>  	if (!buts->buf_size || !buts->buf_nr)
>  		return -EINVAL;
>  
> -	strncpy(buts->name, name, BLKTRACE_BDEV_SIZE);
> -	buts->name[BLKTRACE_BDEV_SIZE - 1] = '\0';
> +	strscpy(buts->name, name, BLKTRACE_BDEV_SIZE);

The commit message says "Using strscpy_pad()" but it doesn't do so in the
patch.

Rule 12 of debugging: "When the comment and the code do not match, they are
                       probably both wrong"

-- Steve


>  
>  	/*
>  	 * some device names have larger paths - convert the slashes
Arnd Bergmann April 8, 2024, 6:05 p.m. UTC | #2
On Thu, Mar 28, 2024, at 15:14, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Thu, 28 Mar 2024 15:04:52 +0100
>> 
>> diff --git a/kernel/trace/blktrace.c b/kernel/trace/blktrace.c
>> index d5d94510afd3..95a00160d465 100644
>> --- a/kernel/trace/blktrace.c
>> +++ b/kernel/trace/blktrace.c
>> @@ -524,8 +524,7 @@ static int do_blk_trace_setup(struct request_queue *q, char *name, dev_t dev,
>>  	if (!buts->buf_size || !buts->buf_nr)
>>  		return -EINVAL;
>>  
>> -	strncpy(buts->name, name, BLKTRACE_BDEV_SIZE);
>> -	buts->name[BLKTRACE_BDEV_SIZE - 1] = '\0';
>> +	strscpy(buts->name, name, BLKTRACE_BDEV_SIZE);
>
> The commit message says "Using strscpy_pad()" but it doesn't do so in the
> patch.
>
> Rule 12 of debugging: "When the comment and the code do not match, they are
>                        probably both wrong"

Thanks for double-checking this, I had a hard time deciding which
one to use here and ended up with an obviously inconsistent version.

I've changed it now to strscpy_pad() for v2, which is the slightly
safer choice here. The non-padding version would still not leak
kernel data but would write back user-provided data after the
padding instead of always zeroing it.

    Arnd
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Patch

diff --git a/kernel/trace/blktrace.c b/kernel/trace/blktrace.c
index d5d94510afd3..95a00160d465 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/blktrace.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/blktrace.c
@@ -524,8 +524,7 @@  static int do_blk_trace_setup(struct request_queue *q, char *name, dev_t dev,
 	if (!buts->buf_size || !buts->buf_nr)
 		return -EINVAL;
 
-	strncpy(buts->name, name, BLKTRACE_BDEV_SIZE);
-	buts->name[BLKTRACE_BDEV_SIZE - 1] = '\0';
+	strscpy(buts->name, name, BLKTRACE_BDEV_SIZE);
 
 	/*
 	 * some device names have larger paths - convert the slashes