Re: [PATCH] usbip: usbip_host: Replace strlcpy with strscpy

From: Kees Cook
Date: Tue Jun 13 2023 - 15:32:03 EST


On Tue, Jun 13, 2023 at 12:44:02AM +0000, Azeem Shaikh wrote:
> strlcpy() reads the entire source buffer first.
> This read may exceed the destination size limit.
> This is both inefficient and can lead to linear read
> overflows if a source string is not NUL-terminated [1].
> In an effort to remove strlcpy() completely [2], replace
> strlcpy() here with strscpy().
>
> Direct replacement is safe here since return value of -E2BIG
> is used to check for truncation instead of sizeof(dest).
>
> [1] https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/deprecated.html#strlcpy
> [2] https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/89
>
> Signed-off-by: Azeem Shaikh <azeemshaikh38@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/usb/usbip/stub_main.c | 4 ++--
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/usb/usbip/stub_main.c b/drivers/usb/usbip/stub_main.c
> index e8c3131a8543..a92a284f5abb 100644
> --- a/drivers/usb/usbip/stub_main.c
> +++ b/drivers/usb/usbip/stub_main.c
> @@ -174,8 +174,8 @@ static ssize_t match_busid_store(struct device_driver *dev, const char *buf,
> return -EINVAL;
>
> /* busid needs to include \0 termination */
> - len = strlcpy(busid, buf + 4, BUSID_SIZE);
> - if (sizeof(busid) <= len)
> + len = strscpy(busid, buf + 4, BUSID_SIZE);
> + if (len == -E2BIG)
> return -EINVAL;

"len" is never used again, so maybe:

if (strscpy(...) < 0)
return -EINVAL;

-Kees

>
> if (!strncmp(buf, "add ", 4)) {
> --
> 2.41.0.162.gfafddb0af9-goog
>
>

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Kees Cook