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[7/7] netfilter: xtables: refactor deprecated strncpy

Message ID 20230808-net-netfilter-v1-7-efbbe4ec60af@google.com (mailing list archive)
State Superseded
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Series netfilter: refactor deprecated strncpy | expand

Commit Message

Justin Stitt Aug. 8, 2023, 10:48 p.m. UTC
Prefer `strscpy` as it's a more robust interface.

There may have existed a bug here due to both `tbl->repl.name` and
`info->name` having a size of 32 as defined below:
|  #define XT_TABLE_MAXNAMELEN 32

This may lead to buffer overreads in some situations -- `strscpy` solves
this by guaranteeing NUL-termination of the dest buffer.

Signed-off-by: Justin Stitt <justinstitt@google.com>

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Note: build tested only
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 net/netfilter/xt_repldata.h | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

Comments

Jan Engelhardt Aug. 8, 2023, 11:20 p.m. UTC | #1
On Wednesday 2023-08-09 00:48, Justin Stitt wrote:

>Prefer `strscpy` as it's a more robust interface.
>
>There may have existed a bug here due to both `tbl->repl.name` and
>`info->name` having a size of 32 as defined below:
>|  #define XT_TABLE_MAXNAMELEN 32
>
>This may lead to buffer overreads in some situations -- `strscpy` solves
>this by guaranteeing NUL-termination of the dest buffer.

It generally will not lead to overreads.
xt not only deals with strings on its own turf, it even takes
them from userspace-provided buffers, which means extra scrutiny is
absolutely required. Done in places like

x_tables.c:     if (strnlen(name, XT_EXTENSION_MAXNAMELEN) == XT_EXTENSION_MAXNAMELEN)


(Which is not to say the strncpy->strscpy mop-up is bad.)
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diff --git a/net/netfilter/xt_repldata.h b/net/netfilter/xt_repldata.h
index 68ccbe50bb1e..63869fd0ec57 100644
--- a/net/netfilter/xt_repldata.h
+++ b/net/netfilter/xt_repldata.h
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ 
 	if (tbl == NULL) \
 		return NULL; \
 	term = (struct type##_error *)&(((char *)tbl)[term_offset]); \
-	strncpy(tbl->repl.name, info->name, sizeof(tbl->repl.name)); \
+	strscpy(tbl->repl.name, info->name, sizeof(tbl->repl.name)); \
 	*term = (struct type##_error)typ2##_ERROR_INIT;  \
 	tbl->repl.valid_hooks = hook_mask; \
 	tbl->repl.num_entries = nhooks + 1; \