On Tue, Dec 27, 2016 at 07:16:53PM +0800, [email protected] wrote:
> From: Gao Feng <[email protected]>
>
> The current codes use strncpy to copy the dev name in
> nf_tables_newchain, there is no real issue now. Because the sizes of
> src and dst are IFNAMSIZ. But normally it should use count-1 with
> strncpy, because strncpy doesn't make sure the dst must be
> NULL-terminated when src exceeds the count bytes.
> So use strlcpy to replace the strncpy to make it clearer.
>
> Signed-off-by: Gao Feng <[email protected]>
> ---
> net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c b/net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c
> index a019a87..dc50801 100644
> --- a/net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c
> +++ b/net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c
> @@ -1488,7 +1488,7 @@ static int nf_tables_newchain(struct net *net, struct
> sock *nlsk,
> }
>
> if (hook.dev != NULL)
> - strncpy(basechain->dev_name, hook.dev->name, IFNAMSIZ);
> + strlcpy(basechain->dev_name, hook.dev->name, IFNAMSIZ);
I think this is not a problem, look:
[NFTA_HOOK_DEV] = { .type = NLA_STRING,
.len = IFNAMSIZ - 1 },
The netlink attribute policy enforces that NFTA_HOOK_DEV is always one
bytes smaller than the maximum length. So we guarantee that there's
room to nul-terminated this string.
> if (nla[NFTA_CHAIN_COUNTERS]) {
> stats = nft_stats_alloc(nla[NFTA_CHAIN_COUNTERS]);
> --
> 1.9.1
>
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