Re: [PATCH] crypto: blkcipher: prefer strlcpy to strncpy

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On Tue, May 29, 2018 at 9:34 AM, Eric Biggers <ebiggers3@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, May 28, 2018 at 10:44:43PM -0700, Nick Desaulniers wrote:
>> Fixes stringop-truncation warnings from gcc-8.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Nick Desaulniers <nick.desaulniers@xxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>>  crypto/ablkcipher.c | 8 ++++----
>>  crypto/blkcipher.c  | 4 ++--
>>  2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/crypto/ablkcipher.c b/crypto/ablkcipher.c
>> index d880a48..e38867f 100644
>> --- a/crypto/ablkcipher.c
>> +++ b/crypto/ablkcipher.c
>> @@ -370,8 +370,8 @@ static int crypto_ablkcipher_report(struct sk_buff *skb, struct crypto_alg *alg)
>>  {
>>       struct crypto_report_blkcipher rblkcipher;
>>
>> -     strncpy(rblkcipher.type, "ablkcipher", sizeof(rblkcipher.type));
>> -     strncpy(rblkcipher.geniv, alg->cra_ablkcipher.geniv ?: "<default>",
>> +     strlcpy(rblkcipher.type, "ablkcipher", sizeof(rblkcipher.type));
>> +     strlcpy(rblkcipher.geniv, alg->cra_ablkcipher.geniv ?: "<default>",
>>               sizeof(rblkcipher.geniv));
>>
>>       rblkcipher.blocksize = alg->cra_blocksize;
>> @@ -444,8 +444,8 @@ static int crypto_givcipher_report(struct sk_buff *skb, struct crypto_alg *alg)
>>  {
>>       struct crypto_report_blkcipher rblkcipher;
>>
>> -     strncpy(rblkcipher.type, "givcipher", sizeof(rblkcipher.type));
>> -     strncpy(rblkcipher.geniv, alg->cra_ablkcipher.geniv ?: "<built-in>",
>> +     strlcpy(rblkcipher.type, "givcipher", sizeof(rblkcipher.type));
>> +     strlcpy(rblkcipher.geniv, alg->cra_ablkcipher.geniv ?: "<built-in>",
>>               sizeof(rblkcipher.geniv));
>>
>>       rblkcipher.blocksize = alg->cra_blocksize;
>> diff --git a/crypto/blkcipher.c b/crypto/blkcipher.c
>> index 01c0d4a..ee88e48 100644
>> --- a/crypto/blkcipher.c
>> +++ b/crypto/blkcipher.c
>> @@ -509,8 +509,8 @@ static int crypto_blkcipher_report(struct sk_buff *skb, struct crypto_alg *alg)
>>  {
>>       struct crypto_report_blkcipher rblkcipher;
>>
>> -     strncpy(rblkcipher.type, "blkcipher", sizeof(rblkcipher.type));
>> -     strncpy(rblkcipher.geniv, alg->cra_blkcipher.geniv ?: "<default>",
>> +     strlcpy(rblkcipher.type, "blkcipher", sizeof(rblkcipher.type));
>> +     strlcpy(rblkcipher.geniv, alg->cra_blkcipher.geniv ?: "<default>",
>>               sizeof(rblkcipher.geniv));
>>
>>       rblkcipher.blocksize = alg->cra_blocksize;
>> --
>> 2.7.4
>>
>
> Hi Nick, this patch is wrong.  The 'struct crypto_report_blkcipher' is being
> copied to userspace via netlink, so all bytes of it must be initialized.
> strncpy() does this but strlcpy() does not.
>
> I noticed that you're sending out some other patches replacing strncpy() with
> strlcpy() too.  Can you please double check them for this same bug?
>
> Thanks,
>
> - Eric


Thanks for pointing out this subtlety, I've retracted the other patches.



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