On Tue, Aug 06, 2024 at 12:29:30PM +0200, Przemek Kitszel wrote: > On 8/5/24 23:43, Kees Cook wrote: > > GCC already checks for arguments that are marked with the "nonstring"[1] > > attribute when used on standard C String API functions (e.g. strcpy). Gain > > this compile-time checking also for the kernel's primary string copying > > function, strscpy(). > > > > Note that Clang has neither "nonstring" nor __builtin_has_attribute(). > > > > Link: https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Common-Variable-Attributes.html#index-nonstring-variable-attribute [1] > > Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <kees@xxxxxxxxxx> > > > > > diff --git a/include/linux/string.h b/include/linux/string.h > > index 9edace076ddb..95b3fc308f4f 100644 > > --- a/include/linux/string.h > > +++ b/include/linux/string.h > > @@ -76,12 +76,16 @@ ssize_t sized_strscpy(char *, const char *, size_t); > > * known size. > > */ > > #define __strscpy0(dst, src, ...) \ > > - sized_strscpy(dst, src, sizeof(dst) + __must_be_array(dst)) > > -#define __strscpy1(dst, src, size) sized_strscpy(dst, src, size) > > + sized_strscpy(dst, src, sizeof(dst) + __must_be_array(dst) + \ > > + __must_be_cstr(dst) + __must_be_cstr(src)) > > +#define __strscpy1(dst, src, size) \ > > + sized_strscpy(dst, src, size + __must_be_cstr(dst) + __must_be_cstr(src)) > > #define __strscpy_pad0(dst, src, ...) \ > > - sized_strscpy_pad(dst, src, sizeof(dst) + __must_be_array(dst)) > > -#define __strscpy_pad1(dst, src, size) sized_strscpy_pad(dst, src, size) > > + sized_strscpy_pad(dst, src, sizeof(dst) + __must_be_array(dst) + \ > > + __must_be_cstr(dst) + __must_be_cstr(src)) > > +#define __strscpy_pad1(dst, src, size) \ > > + sized_strscpy_pad(dst, src, size + __must_be_cstr(dst) + __must_be_cstr(src)) > > any way to avoid the usual caveat of repeating macro argument? > > a variant of BUILD_BUG that is checking argument and otherwise pasting > it would nail it, but I didn't pondered how to implement such The use of __must_be_cstr() shouldn't cause side-effects, so from what I can tell this is all okay. And since BUILD_BUG_ON_ZERO() resolves to a constant expression, it shouldn't change the processing of the "size" argument in the strscpy internals... -- Kees Cook
