Re: ath10k: avoid possible string overflow

[Kalle Valo]

Arnd Bergmann <a...@arndb.de> wrote:

> The way that 'strncat' is used here raised a warning in gcc-8:
> 
> drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/wmi.c: In function 
> 'ath10k_wmi_tpc_stats_final_disp_tables':
> drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/wmi.c:4649:4: error: 'strncat' output 
> truncated before terminating nul copying as many bytes from a string as its 
> length [-Werror=stringop-truncation]
> 
> Effectively, this is simply a strcat() but the use of strncat() suggests
> some form of overflow check. Regardless of whether this might actually
> overflow, using strlcat() instead of strncat() avoids the warning and
> makes the code more robust.
> 
> Fixes: bc64d05220f3 ("ath10k: debugfs support to get final TPC stats for 10.4 
> variants")
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <a...@arndb.de>
> Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kv...@codeaurora.org>

Patch applied to ath-next branch of ath.git, thanks.

6707ba0105a2 ath10k: avoid possible string overflow

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https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10314201/

https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/developers/documentation/submittingpatches

[PATCH] ath10k: avoid possible string overflow

[Arnd Bergmann]

The way that 'strncat' is used here raised a warning in gcc-8:

drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/wmi.c: In function 
'ath10k_wmi_tpc_stats_final_disp_tables':
drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/wmi.c:4649:4: error: 'strncat' output truncated 
before terminating nul copying as many bytes from a string as its length 
[-Werror=stringop-truncation]

Effectively, this is simply a strcat() but the use of strncat() suggests
some form of overflow check. Regardless of whether this might actually
overflow, using strlcat() instead of strncat() avoids the warning and
makes the code more robust.

Fixes: bc64d05220f3 ("ath10k: debugfs support to get final TPC stats for 10.4 
variants")
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann 
---
 drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/wmi.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/wmi.c 
b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/wmi.c
index 9649bb752bbd..42522ed115f3 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/wmi.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/wmi.c
@@ -4309,7 +4309,7 @@ static void ath10k_tpc_config_disp_tables(struct ath10k 
*ar,
rate_code[i],
type);
snprintf(buff, sizeof(buff), "%8d ", tpc[j]);
-   strncat(tpc_value, buff, strlen(buff));
+   strlcat(tpc_value, buff, sizeof(tpc_value));
}
tpc_stats->tpc_table[type].pream_idx[i] = pream_idx;
tpc_stats->tpc_table[type].rate_code[i] = rate_code[i];
@@ -4646,7 +4646,7 @@ ath10k_wmi_tpc_stats_final_disp_tables(struct ath10k *ar,
   rate_code[i],
   type, pream_idx);
snprintf(buff, sizeof(buff), "%8d ", tpc[j]);
-   strncat(tpc_value, buff, strlen(buff));
+   strlcat(tpc_value, buff, sizeof(tpc_value));
}
tpc_stats->tpc_table_final[type].pream_idx[i] = pream_idx;
tpc_stats->tpc_table_final[type].rate_code[i] = rate_code[i];
-- 
2.9.0