Re: [PATCH][next] cpumask: allocate enough space for string and trailing '\0' char

From: Qian Cai
Date: Mon Nov 09 2020 - 20:07:22 EST


On Mon, 2020-11-09 at 13:04 +0000, Colin King wrote:
> From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Currently the allocation of cpulist is based on the length of buf but does
> not include the addition end of string '\0' terminator. Static analysis is
> reporting this as a potential out-of-bounds access on cpulist. Fix this by
> allocating enough space for the additional '\0' terminator.
>
> Addresses-Coverity: ("Out-of-bounds access")
> Fixes: 65987e67f7ff ("cpumask: add "last" alias for cpu list specifications")

Yeah, this bad commit also introduced KASAN errors everywhere and then will
disable lockdep that makes our linux-next CI miserable. Confirmed that this
patch will fix it.

> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> lib/cpumask.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/lib/cpumask.c b/lib/cpumask.c
> index 34ecb3005941..cb8a3ef0e73e 100644
> --- a/lib/cpumask.c
> +++ b/lib/cpumask.c
> @@ -185,7 +185,7 @@ int __ref cpulist_parse(const char *buf, struct cpumask
> *dstp)
> {
> int r;
> char *cpulist, last_cpu[5]; /* NR_CPUS <= 9999 */
> - size_t len = strlen(buf);
> + size_t len = strlen(buf) + 1;
> bool early = !slab_is_available();
>
> if (!strcmp(buf, "all")) {