On Wed, 15 Nov 2023, Kees Cook wrote: > 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]. > Additionally, it returns the size of the source string, not the > resulting size of the destination string. In an effort to remove strlcpy() > completely[2], replace strlcpy() here with strscpy(). > > Explicitly handle the truncation case by returning the size of the > resulting string. > > If "nodename" was ever longer than sizeof(clnt->cl_nodename) - 1, this > change will fix a bug where clnt->cl_nodelen would end up thinking there > were more characters in clnt->cl_nodename than there actually were, > which might have lead to kernel memory content exposures. > > Cc: Trond Myklebust <[email protected]> > Cc: Anna Schumaker <[email protected]> > Cc: Chuck Lever <[email protected]> > Cc: Jeff Layton <[email protected]> > Cc: Neil Brown <[email protected]> > Cc: Olga Kornievskaia <[email protected]> > Cc: Dai Ngo <[email protected]> > Cc: Tom Talpey <[email protected]> > Cc: "David S. Miller" <[email protected]> > Cc: Eric Dumazet <[email protected]> > Cc: Jakub Kicinski <[email protected]> > Cc: Paolo Abeni <[email protected]> > Cc: [email protected] > Cc: [email protected] > Link: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/deprecated.html#strlcpy > [1] > Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/89 [2] > Co-developed-by: Azeem Shaikh <[email protected]> > Signed-off-by: Azeem Shaikh <[email protected]> > Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <[email protected]> > --- > net/sunrpc/clnt.c | 10 ++++++++-- > 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/net/sunrpc/clnt.c b/net/sunrpc/clnt.c > index daa9582ec861..7afe02bdea4a 100644 > --- a/net/sunrpc/clnt.c > +++ b/net/sunrpc/clnt.c > @@ -287,8 +287,14 @@ static struct rpc_xprt *rpc_clnt_set_transport(struct > rpc_clnt *clnt, > > static void rpc_clnt_set_nodename(struct rpc_clnt *clnt, const char > *nodename) > { > - clnt->cl_nodelen = strlcpy(clnt->cl_nodename, > - nodename, sizeof(clnt->cl_nodename)); > + ssize_t copied; > + > + copied = strscpy(clnt->cl_nodename, > + nodename, sizeof(clnt->cl_nodename)); > + > + clnt->cl_nodelen = copied < 0 > + ? sizeof(clnt->cl_nodename) - 1 > + : copied; > }
Reviewed-by: NeilBrown <[email protected]> If it were "copied == -E2BIG" instead of "copied < 0" it would be more obvious why sizeof(...) is used in that case. But we really want to do something sensible for *any* error message that might be added in the future.. I guess. Thanks, NeilBrown > > static int rpc_client_register(struct rpc_clnt *clnt, > -- > 2.34.1 > >
