Re: [PATCH v2] net: bonding: Use strscpy() instead of manually-truncated strncpy()

From: Kees Cook
Date: Wed Jun 02 2021 - 16:55:10 EST


On Wed, Jun 02, 2021 at 01:47:20PM -0700, Jay Vosburgh wrote:
> Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> >Silence this warning by just using strscpy_pad() directly:
> >
> >>> drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c:4877:3: warning: 'strncpy' specified bound 16 equals destination size [-Wstringop-truncation]
> > 4877 | strncpy(params->primary, primary, IFNAMSIZ);
> > | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> >
> >Additionally replace other strncpy() uses, as it is considered deprecated:
> >https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/deprecated.html#strncpy-on-nul-terminated-strings
> >
> >Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@xxxxxxxxx>
> >Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/202102150705.fdR6obB0-lkp@xxxxxxxxx
> >Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> There's one more "strncpy(...); primary[IFNAMSIZ - 1] = 0;" set
> in bond_options.c:bond_option_primary_set(), doesn't it also generate
> this warning?

Gah, I was looking only in the same file not the whole directory. :)

v3 on the way!

>
> Either way, the change looks good to me.

Thanks!

>
> Acked-by: Jay Vosburgh <jay.vosburgh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> -J
>
>
> >---
> >v2:
> > - switch to strscpy_pad() and replace earlier strncpy() too
> >v1: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20210602181133.3326856-1-keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> >---
> > drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c | 8 +++-----
> > 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> >
> >diff --git a/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c b/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c
> >index c5a646d06102..e9cb716ad849 100644
> >--- a/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c
> >+++ b/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c
> >@@ -620,7 +620,7 @@ static int bond_check_dev_link(struct bonding *bond,
> > */
> >
> > /* Yes, the mii is overlaid on the ifreq.ifr_ifru */
> >- strncpy(ifr.ifr_name, slave_dev->name, IFNAMSIZ);
> >+ strscpy_pad(ifr.ifr_name, slave_dev->name, IFNAMSIZ);
> > mii = if_mii(&ifr);
> > if (ioctl(slave_dev, &ifr, SIOCGMIIPHY) == 0) {
> > mii->reg_num = MII_BMSR;
> >@@ -5329,10 +5329,8 @@ static int bond_check_params(struct bond_params *params)
> > (struct reciprocal_value) { 0 };
> > }
> >
> >- if (primary) {
> >- strncpy(params->primary, primary, IFNAMSIZ);
> >- params->primary[IFNAMSIZ - 1] = 0;
> >- }
> >+ if (primary)
> >+ strscpy_pad(params->primary, primary, sizeof(params->primary));
> >
> > memcpy(params->arp_targets, arp_target, sizeof(arp_target));
> >
> >--
> >2.25.1
>
> ---
> -Jay Vosburgh, jay.vosburgh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

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Kees Cook