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..0cd2f3de100c 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); iph->version = 4; iph->ihl = 5; diff --git a/net/ipv4/netfilter/arp_tables.c b/net/ipv4/netfilter/arp_tables.c index 14365b20f1c5..42c34e8952da 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); 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..97e754ddc155 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); if (copy_to_user(user, &info, *len) != 0) ret = -EFAULT; -- 2.34.1
