Re: [PATCH v2] scsi: target: Replace strlcpy with strscpy

[Kees Cook]

On Wed, Aug 30, 2023 at 09:53:30PM +0000, Justin Stitt wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 30, 2023 at 09:07:24PM +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 -errno
> > 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>
> > ---
> > v2:
> >  * Replace all instances of strlcpy in this file instead of just 1.
> >
> > v1:
> >  * https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230830200717.4129442-1-azeemshaikh38@xxxxxxxxx/
> >
> >  drivers/target/target_core_configfs.c |   27 ++++++++++++---------------
> >  1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/target/target_core_configfs.c b/drivers/target/target_core_configfs.c
> > index 936e5ff1b209..10a22a428267 100644
> > --- a/drivers/target/target_core_configfs.c
> > +++ b/drivers/target/target_core_configfs.c
> > @@ -1392,16 +1392,15 @@ static ssize_t target_wwn_vendor_id_store(struct config_item *item,
> >  	/* +2 to allow for a trailing (stripped) '\n' and null-terminator */
> >  	unsigned char buf[INQUIRY_VENDOR_LEN + 2];
> >  	char *stripped = NULL;
> > -	size_t len;
> > +	ssize_t len;
> >  	ssize_t ret;
> >
> > -	len = strlcpy(buf, page, sizeof(buf));
> > -	if (len < sizeof(buf)) {
> > +	len = strscpy(buf, page, sizeof(buf));
> > +	if (len > 0) {
> >  		/* Strip any newline added from userspace. */
> >  		stripped = strstrip(buf);
> > -		len = strlen(stripped);
> >  	}
> > -	if (len > INQUIRY_VENDOR_LEN) {
> > +	if (len < 0 || strlen(stripped) > INQUIRY_VENDOR_LEN) {
> >  		pr_err("Emulated T10 Vendor Identification exceeds"
> >  			" INQUIRY_VENDOR_LEN: " __stringify(INQUIRY_VENDOR_LEN)
> >  			"\n");
> 
> Should we be explicitly checking for `len == -E2BIG` instead of the more
> generic `len < 0`? Perhaps this is a nitpick but I prefer the former.

For robustness, we want to just do the "< 0" test -- that way if
strscpy() gains a new errno (for some unimaginable reason) then all the
code testing for "< 0" will continue to work sanely.

-Kees

-- 
Kees Cook