Re: [PATCH 1/1] mach-omap2: fixing wrong strcat for Non-NULL terminated string

From: Russell King - ARM Linux
Date: Wed Nov 30 2016 - 08:28:02 EST


On Wed, Nov 30, 2016 at 04:10:28PM +0530, Maninder Singh wrote:
> variable name can have Non NULL terminated string after cropping
> which may result strcat to fail, and cropping is not
> required if (strlen(oh->name) + 8 < MOD_CLK_MAX_NAME_LEN).
>
> Issue caught with static analysis tool:
> "Dangerous usage of 'name' (strncpy doesn't always 0-terminate it)"

Maybe switch to strlcpy() ?

>
> Signed-off-by: Vaneet Narang <v.narang@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Maninder Singh <maninder1.s@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> arch/arm/mach-omap2/omap_hwmod.c | 9 ++++++---
> 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm/mach-omap2/omap_hwmod.c b/arch/arm/mach-omap2/omap_hwmod.c
> index 759e1d4..8adf272 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/mach-omap2/omap_hwmod.c
> +++ b/arch/arm/mach-omap2/omap_hwmod.c
> @@ -742,12 +742,15 @@ static int _init_main_clk(struct omap_hwmod *oh)
> char name[MOD_CLK_MAX_NAME_LEN];
> struct clk *clk;
>
> - /* +7 magic comes from '_mod_ck' suffix */
> - if (strlen(oh->name) + 7 > MOD_CLK_MAX_NAME_LEN)
> + /* +8 magic comes from strlen("_mod_ck") added as suffix */
> + if (strlen(oh->name) + 8 > MOD_CLK_MAX_NAME_LEN) {
> pr_warn("%s: warning: cropping name for %s\n", __func__,
> oh->name);
> + strncpy(name, oh->name, MOD_CLK_MAX_NAME_LEN - 8);
> + name[MOD_CLK_MAX_NAME_LEN - 8] = '\0';
> + } else
> + strcpy(name, oh->name);
>
> - strncpy(name, oh->name, MOD_CLK_MAX_NAME_LEN - 7);
> strcat(name, "_mod_ck");
>
> clk = clk_get(NULL, name);
> --
> 1.9.1
>

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