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[16/25] net: sh_eth: ensure mdiodev->name is NULL terminated after MDIO_NAME_LEN truncation

Message ID 20210927112205.301876-17-vladimir.oltean@nxp.com
State Accepted
Commit 7616240b4dd6b8322b79327f45150e0cc0bf6a79
Delegated to: Ramon Fried
Headers show
Series Fix some non-NULL terminated strings in the networking subsystem | expand

Commit Message

Vladimir Oltean Sept. 27, 2021, 11:21 a.m. UTC
strncpy() simply bails out when copying a source string whose size
exceeds the destination string size, potentially leaving the destination
string unterminated.

One possible way to address is to pass MDIO_NAME_LEN - 1 and a
previously zero-initialized destination string, but this is more
difficult to maintain.

The chosen alternative is to use strlcpy(), which properly limits the
copy len in the (srclen >= size) case to "size - 1", and which is also
more efficient than the strncpy() byte-by-byte implementation by using
memcpy. The destination string returned by strlcpy() is always NULL
terminated.

Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@nxp.com>
---
 drivers/net/sh_eth.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

Comments

Ramon Fried Sept. 28, 2021, 1:33 p.m. UTC | #1
On Mon, Sep 27, 2021 at 2:22 PM Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@nxp.com> wrote:
>
> strncpy() simply bails out when copying a source string whose size
> exceeds the destination string size, potentially leaving the destination
> string unterminated.
>
> One possible way to address is to pass MDIO_NAME_LEN - 1 and a
> previously zero-initialized destination string, but this is more
> difficult to maintain.
>
> The chosen alternative is to use strlcpy(), which properly limits the
> copy len in the (srclen >= size) case to "size - 1", and which is also
> more efficient than the strncpy() byte-by-byte implementation by using
> memcpy. The destination string returned by strlcpy() is always NULL
> terminated.
>
> Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@nxp.com>
> ---
>  drivers/net/sh_eth.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/net/sh_eth.c b/drivers/net/sh_eth.c
> index 3143a5813a6d..4055f07b2feb 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/sh_eth.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/sh_eth.c
> @@ -657,7 +657,7 @@ int sh_eth_initialize(struct bd_info *bd)
>         mdiodev = mdio_alloc();
>         if (!mdiodev)
>                 return -ENOMEM;
> -       strncpy(mdiodev->name, dev->name, MDIO_NAME_LEN);
> +       strlcpy(mdiodev->name, dev->name, MDIO_NAME_LEN);
>         mdiodev->read = bb_miiphy_read;
>         mdiodev->write = bb_miiphy_write;
>
> --
> 2.25.1
>
Reviewed-by: Ramon Fried <rfried.dev@gmail.com>
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diff --git a/drivers/net/sh_eth.c b/drivers/net/sh_eth.c
index 3143a5813a6d..4055f07b2feb 100644
--- a/drivers/net/sh_eth.c
+++ b/drivers/net/sh_eth.c
@@ -657,7 +657,7 @@  int sh_eth_initialize(struct bd_info *bd)
 	mdiodev = mdio_alloc();
 	if (!mdiodev)
 		return -ENOMEM;
-	strncpy(mdiodev->name, dev->name, MDIO_NAME_LEN);
+	strlcpy(mdiodev->name, dev->name, MDIO_NAME_LEN);
 	mdiodev->read = bb_miiphy_read;
 	mdiodev->write = bb_miiphy_write;