The deprecated helper strcpy() performs no bounds checking on the destination buffer. This could result in linear overflows beyond the end of the buffer, leading to all kinds of misbehaviors. The safe replacement is strscpy() [1]. Link: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/deprecated.html#strcpy [1] Signed-off-by: Hongbo Li <lihongbo22@xxxxxxxxxx> --- net/ipv4/ip_tunnel.c | 2 +- net/ipv4/netfilter/arp_tables.c | 2 +- net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_tables.c | 2 +- 3 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/net/ipv4/ip_tunnel.c b/net/ipv4/ip_tunnel.c index 5cffad42fe8c..1c33fcbc0827 100644 --- a/net/ipv4/ip_tunnel.c +++ b/net/ipv4/ip_tunnel.c @@ -1326,7 +1326,7 @@ int ip_tunnel_init(struct net_device *dev) tunnel->dev = dev; tunnel->net = dev_net(dev); - strcpy(tunnel->parms.name, dev->name); + strscpy(tunnel->parms.name, dev->name, sizeof(tunnel->parms.name)); iph->version = 4; iph->ihl = 5; diff --git a/net/ipv4/netfilter/arp_tables.c b/net/ipv4/netfilter/arp_tables.c index 14365b20f1c5..2fa6ea78db9e 100644 --- a/net/ipv4/netfilter/arp_tables.c +++ b/net/ipv4/netfilter/arp_tables.c @@ -826,7 +826,7 @@ static int get_info(struct net *net, void __user *user, const int *len) sizeof(info.underflow)); info.num_entries = private->number; info.size = private->size; - strcpy(info.name, name); + strscpy(info.name, name, sizeof(info.name)); if (copy_to_user(user, &info, *len) != 0) ret = -EFAULT; diff --git a/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_tables.c b/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_tables.c index fe89a056eb06..d853070432c6 100644 --- a/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_tables.c +++ b/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_tables.c @@ -981,7 +981,7 @@ static int get_info(struct net *net, void __user *user, const int *len) sizeof(info.underflow)); info.num_entries = private->number; info.size = private->size; - strcpy(info.name, name); + strscpy(info.name, name, sizeof(info.name)); if (copy_to_user(user, &info, *len) != 0) ret = -EFAULT; -- 2.34.1