Re: [PATCH v2] scsi: hpsa: replace deprecated strncpy

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On Thu, Oct 26, 2023 at 11:13:41PM +0000, Justin Stitt wrote:
> strncpy() is deprecated for use on NUL-terminated destination strings
> [1] and as such we should prefer more robust and less ambiguous string
> interfaces.
> 
> Instances of strncpy()'ing a string into a buffer and manually
> NUL-terminating followed by sccanf with just "%d" as the format
> specifier can be accomplished by strscpy() and kstrtoint().
> 
> strscpy() guarantees NUL-termination on the destination buffer and
> kstrtoint is better way of getting strings turned into ints.
> 
> For the last two strncpy() use cases in init_driver_version(), we can
> actually drop this function entirely.
> 
> Firstly, we are kmalloc()'ing driver_version. Then, we are calling
> init_driver_version() which memset's it to 0 followed by a strncpy().
> The pattern is 1) allocating memory for a string, 2) setting all bytes
> to NUL, 3) copy bytes from another string + ensure NUL-padded.
> 
> For these, we can just stack allocate driver_version and
> old_driver_version. This simplifies the code greatly as we don't have
> any malloc/free or strncpy's.
> 
> Link: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/deprecated.html#strncpy-on-nul-terminated-strings [1]
> Link: https://manpages.debian.org/testing/linux-manual-4.8/strscpy.9.en.html [2]
> Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/90
> Cc: linux-hardening@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Justin Stitt <justinstitt@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> Changes in v2:
> - use stack for buffers (thanks Kees)
> - use kstrtoint (thanks Kees)
> - Link to v1: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231026-strncpy-drivers-scsi-hpsa-c-v1-1-75519d7a191b@xxxxxxxxxx
> ---
> Note: build-tested only.
> 
> Found with: $ rg "strncpy\("
> ---
>  drivers/scsi/hpsa.c | 53 ++++++++++++++++++++---------------------------------
>  1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 33 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/scsi/hpsa.c b/drivers/scsi/hpsa.c
> index af18d20f3079..4d42fbb071cf 100644
> --- a/drivers/scsi/hpsa.c
> +++ b/drivers/scsi/hpsa.c
> @@ -452,18 +452,18 @@ static ssize_t host_store_hp_ssd_smart_path_status(struct device *dev,
>  					 struct device_attribute *attr,
>  					 const char *buf, size_t count)
>  {
> -	int status, len;
> +	int status;
>  	struct ctlr_info *h;
>  	struct Scsi_Host *shost = class_to_shost(dev);
>  	char tmpbuf[10];
>  
>  	if (!capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN) || !capable(CAP_SYS_RAWIO))
>  		return -EACCES;
> -	len = count > sizeof(tmpbuf) - 1 ? sizeof(tmpbuf) - 1 : count;
> -	strncpy(tmpbuf, buf, len);
> -	tmpbuf[len] = '\0';
> -	if (sscanf(tmpbuf, "%d", &status) != 1)
> +
> +	strscpy(tmpbuf, buf, sizeof(tmpbuf));
> +	if (kstrtoint(tmpbuf, 0, &status))

I actually meant:

	if (kstrtoint(buf, 0, &status))

I don't see any reason for "tmpbuf" at all.

> @@ -7234,25 +7234,15 @@ static int hpsa_controller_hard_reset(struct pci_dev *pdev,
>  	return 0;
>  }
>  
> -static void init_driver_version(char *driver_version, int len)
> -{
> -	memset(driver_version, 0, len);
> -	strncpy(driver_version, HPSA " " HPSA_DRIVER_VERSION, len - 1);
> -}
> -
>  static int write_driver_ver_to_cfgtable(struct CfgTable __iomem *cfgtable)
>  {
> -	char *driver_version;
>  	int i, size = sizeof(cfgtable->driver_version);
> +	char driver_version[sizeof(cfgtable->driver_version)] =
> +						HPSA " " HPSA_DRIVER_VERSION;
>  
> -	driver_version = kmalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL);
> -	if (!driver_version)
> -		return -ENOMEM;
> -
> -	init_driver_version(driver_version, size);
>  	for (i = 0; i < size; i++)
>  		writeb(driver_version[i], &cfgtable->driver_version[i]);
> -	kfree(driver_version);
> +
>  	return 0;
>  }
>  
> @@ -7268,21 +7258,18 @@ static void read_driver_ver_from_cfgtable(struct CfgTable __iomem *cfgtable,
>  static int controller_reset_failed(struct CfgTable __iomem *cfgtable)
>  {
>  
> -	char *driver_ver, *old_driver_ver;
> -	int rc, size = sizeof(cfgtable->driver_version);
> -
> -	old_driver_ver = kmalloc_array(2, size, GFP_KERNEL);
> -	if (!old_driver_ver)
> -		return -ENOMEM;
> -	driver_ver = old_driver_ver + size;
> +	char driver_ver[sizeof(cfgtable->driver_version)] = "";
> +	char old_driver_ver[sizeof(cfgtable->driver_version)] =
> +						HPSA " " HPSA_DRIVER_VERSION;
> +	int rc;
>  
>  	/* After a reset, the 32 bytes of "driver version" in the cfgtable
>  	 * should have been changed, otherwise we know the reset failed.
>  	 */
> -	init_driver_version(old_driver_ver, size);
>  	read_driver_ver_from_cfgtable(cfgtable, driver_ver);
> -	rc = !memcmp(driver_ver, old_driver_ver, size);
> -	kfree(old_driver_ver);
> +	rc = !memcmp(driver_ver, old_driver_ver,
> +		     sizeof(cfgtable->driver_version));
> +
>  	return rc;
>  }
>  /* This does a hard reset of the controller using PCI power management

These two look good now; thanks!

-Kees

-- 
Kees Cook



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