Len Baker <len.baker@xxxxxxx> writes:
> 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.
>
> Also, the strnlen() call does not avoid the read overflow in the strlcpy
> function when a not NUL-terminated string is passed.
>
> So, replace this block by a call to kstrndup() that avoids this type of
> overflow and does the same.
>
> Fixes: 066ce6899484d ("cifs: rename cifs_strlcpy_to_host and make it use new functions")
> Signed-off-by: Len Baker <len.baker@xxxxxxx>
> ---
> fs/cifs/cifs_unicode.c | 9 ++-------
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
Reviewed-by: Paulo Alcantara (SUSE) <pc@xxxxxx>
