This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled net: don't call strlen on non-terminated string in dev_set_alias() to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: net-don-t-call-strlen-on-non-terminated-string-in-dev_set_alias.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From foo@baz Thu Jun 29 19:38:17 CEST 2017 From: Alexander Potapenko <glider@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2017 15:56:54 +0200 Subject: net: don't call strlen on non-terminated string in dev_set_alias() From: Alexander Potapenko <glider@xxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit c28294b941232931fbd714099798eb7aa7e865d7 ] KMSAN reported a use of uninitialized memory in dev_set_alias(), which was caused by calling strlcpy() (which in turn called strlen()) on the user-supplied non-terminated string. Signed-off-by: Alexander Potapenko <glider@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- net/core/dev.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/net/core/dev.c +++ b/net/core/dev.c @@ -1246,8 +1246,9 @@ int dev_set_alias(struct net_device *dev if (!new_ifalias) return -ENOMEM; dev->ifalias = new_ifalias; + memcpy(dev->ifalias, alias, len); + dev->ifalias[len] = 0; - strlcpy(dev->ifalias, alias, len+1); return len; } Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from glider@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.4/net-don-t-call-strlen-on-non-terminated-string-in-dev_set_alias.patch