Re: [PATCH] staging: android: Replace strcpy with strlcpy

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On Mon, Mar 13, 2017 at 6:11 PM, Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 12, 2017 at 02:10:01AM +0530, simran singhal wrote:
>> Replace strcpy with strlcpy as strcpy does not check for buffer
>> overflow.
>> This is found using Flawfinder.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: simran singhal <singhalsimran0@xxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>>  drivers/staging/android/ashmem.c | 3 ++-
>>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/staging/android/ashmem.c b/drivers/staging/android/ashmem.c
>> index 7cbad0d..eb2f4ef 100644
>> --- a/drivers/staging/android/ashmem.c
>> +++ b/drivers/staging/android/ashmem.c
>> @@ -548,7 +548,8 @@ static int set_name(struct ashmem_area *asma, void __user *name)
>>       if (unlikely(asma->file))
>>               ret = -EINVAL;
>>       else
>> -             strcpy(asma->name + ASHMEM_NAME_PREFIX_LEN, local_name);
>> +             strlcpy(asma->name + ASHMEM_NAME_PREFIX_LEN, local_name,
>> +                     sizeof(asma->name + ASHMEM_NAME_PREFIX_LEN));
>                         ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> This isn't right.
>
> Also please do some analysis to see if it's a real bug or a false
> positive.  It is a false positive in this case.
>

Dan,
I have already sent v3 of this in which I have used:
sizeof(asma->name) - ASHMEM_NAME_PREFIX_LEN

Thanks!
Simran

> regards,
> dan carpenter
>
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