Hi,
On Mon, 26 Nov 2018, Qian Cai wrote:
> To make overflows as obvious as possible and to prevent code from blithely
> proceeding with a truncated string. This also has a side-effect to fix a
> compilation warning when using GCC 8.2.1.
>
> net/netfilter/ipset/ip_set_core.c: In function 'ip_set_sockfn_get':
> net/netfilter/ipset/ip_set_core.c:2027:3: warning: 'strncpy' writing 32
> bytes into a region of size 2 overflows the destination
> [-Wstringop-overflow=]
>
> Signed-off-by: Qian Cai <c...@gmx.us>
> ---
>
> Changes since v1:
> * Checked the return value.
>
> net/netfilter/ipset/ip_set_core.c | 7 +++++--
> 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/net/netfilter/ipset/ip_set_core.c
> b/net/netfilter/ipset/ip_set_core.c
> index 1577f2f76060..c6f82556f7f2 100644
> --- a/net/netfilter/ipset/ip_set_core.c
> +++ b/net/netfilter/ipset/ip_set_core.c
> @@ -2024,8 +2024,11 @@ ip_set_sockfn_get(struct sock *sk, int optval, void
> __user *user, int *len)
> }
> nfnl_lock(NFNL_SUBSYS_IPSET);
> set = ip_set(inst, req_get->set.index);
> - strncpy(req_get->set.name, set ? set->name : "",
> - IPSET_MAXNAMELEN);
> + if (strscpy(req_get->set.name, set ? set->name : "",
> + IPSET_MAXNAMELEN) == -E2BIG) {
> + ret = -E2BIG;
> + goto done;
> + }
> nfnl_unlock(NFNL_SUBSYS_IPSET);
> goto copy;
> }
This second version is not OK: the netlink lock is not released in
the error path. Please use an explicit ret = strscpy() assignment first,
then check the error condition and in the error path call
nfnl_unlock(NFNL_SUBSYS_IPSET) and goto to the final error handling.
Thanks!
Best regards,
Jozsef
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