Re: [PATCH 03/12] libfdt: Safer access to strings section

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On Fri, Mar 30, 2018 at 04:42:21PM +0800, Simon Glass wrote:
> Hi David,
> 
> On 26 March 2018 at 07:25, David Gibson <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > fdt_string() is used to retrieve strings from a DT blob's strings section.
> > It's rarely used directly, but is widely used internally.
> >
> > However, it doesn't do any bounds checking, which means in the case of a
> > corrupted blob it could access bad memory, which libfdt is supposed to
> > avoid.
> >
> > This write a safe alternative to fdt_string, fdt_get_string().  It checks
> > both that the given offset is within the string section and that the string
> > it points to is properly \0 terminated within the section.  It also returns
> > the string's length as a convenience (since it needs to determine to do the
> > checks anyway).
> >
> > fdt_string() is rewritten in terms of fdt_get_string() for compatibility.
> >
> > Most of the diff here is actually testing infrastructure.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >  libfdt/fdt_ro.c          | 61 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
> >  libfdt/libfdt.h          | 18 ++++++++++-
> >  libfdt/version.lds       |  2 +-
> >  tests/.gitignore         |  1 +
> >  tests/Makefile.tests     |  2 +-
> >  tests/run_tests.sh       |  1 +
> >  tests/testdata.h         |  1 +
> >  tests/testutils.c        | 11 +++++--
> >  tests/trees.S            | 26 ++++++++++++++++
> >  tests/truncated_string.c | 79 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >  10 files changed, 193 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
> >  create mode 100644 tests/truncated_string.c
> 
> Similar code-size quesiton here. It looks like a lot of checking code.
> Can we have an option to remove it?

Again, I'm disinclined without a concrete example of a problem.  Fwiw
the code size change is +276 bytes on my setup.

> 
> >
> > diff --git a/libfdt/fdt_ro.c b/libfdt/fdt_ro.c
> > index 4f4ef44..347aa7b 100644
> > --- a/libfdt/fdt_ro.c
> > +++ b/libfdt/fdt_ro.c
> > @@ -76,17 +76,72 @@ static int fdt_nodename_eq_(const void *fdt, int offset,
> >                 return 0;
> >  }
> >
> > +const char *fdt_get_string(const void *fdt, int stroffset, int *lenp)
> 
> Comment? The difference between fdt_get_string() and fdt_string() is
> not obvious from the name.

There are full banner comments in libfdt.h.  Basically the only
difference is that fdt_get_string() returns the length as well.

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