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Re: [PATCH] mac80211: fix incorrect strlen of .write in debugfs

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On Mon, 2021-01-11 at 14:19 +0800, Shayne Chen wrote:
> 
> Regarding the case "10\n\0\0\0\0", both count and strlen() fail to get
> the correct strlen.

Yeah.

I don't think we need to worry about this case.

> # echo "10\n\0\0\0\0" > /sys/kernel/debug/ieee80211/phy0/airtime_flags
> airtime_flags_write: count = 13, strlen = 15 
> > > +	buf[count] = '\0';
> > 
> > But if count == sizeof(buf) then this is an out-of-bounds write.
> > 
> > Same for all the other copied instances.
> > 
> > johannes
> > 
> 
> Should we consider this kind of case here?

Sure, we're at the kernel/userspace trust boundary, we can't just read
out-of-bounds? Or what do you mean?

johannes





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