[PATCH] Fix off by one in samsung driver strncpy size arg

From: Dominik 'disconnect3d' Czarnota
Date: Mon Mar 09 2020 - 11:23:19 EST


From: disconnect3d <dominik.b.czarnota@xxxxxxxxx>

This patch fixes an off-by-one error in strncpy size argument in
drivers/net/ethernet/samsung/sxgbe/sxgbe_main.c. The issue is that in:

strncmp(opt, "eee_timer:", 6)

the passed string literal: "eee_timer:" has 10 bytes (without the NULL
byte) and the passed size argument is 6. As a result, the logic will
also accept other, malformed strings, e.g. "eee_tiXXX:".

This bug doesn't seem to have any security impact since its present in
module's cmdline parsing code.

Signed-off-by: disconnect3d <dominik.b.czarnota@xxxxxxxxx>
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Notes:
I can't test this patch, so if someone can, please, do so.

The bug could also be fixed by changing the size argument to
`sizeof("string literal")-1` or by using kernel's `strstarts` function that
uses `strlen` under the hood [1]

There are also more cases like this in kernel sources which I
reported/will report soon.

This bug has been found by running a massive grep-like search using
Google's BigQuery on GitHub repositories data. I am also going to work
on a CodeQL/Semmle query to be able to find more sophisticated cases
like this that can't be found via grepping.

[1] https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/latest/source/include/linux/string.h#L226

drivers/net/ethernet/samsung/sxgbe/sxgbe_main.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/samsung/sxgbe/sxgbe_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/samsung/sxgbe/sxgbe_main.c
index c705743d69f7..2cc8184b7e6b 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/samsung/sxgbe/sxgbe_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/samsung/sxgbe/sxgbe_main.c
@@ -2277,7 +2277,7 @@ static int __init sxgbe_cmdline_opt(char *str)
if (!str || !*str)
return -EINVAL;
while ((opt = strsep(&str, ",")) != NULL) {
- if (!strncmp(opt, "eee_timer:", 6)) {
+ if (!strncmp(opt, "eee_timer:", 10)) {
if (kstrtoint(opt + 10, 0, &eee_timer))
goto err;
}
--
2.25.1