This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
qlge: avoid memcpy buffer overflow
to the 4.9-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:
qlge-avoid-memcpy-buffer-overflow.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.9 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 Sep 14 23:20:08 PDT 2017
From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2017 15:59:49 +0200
Subject: qlge: avoid memcpy buffer overflow
From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
[ Upstream commit e58f95831e7468d25eb6e41f234842ecfe6f014f ]
gcc-8.0.0 (snapshot) points out that we copy a variable-length string
into a fixed length field using memcpy() with the destination length,
and that ends up copying whatever follows the string:
inlined from 'ql_core_dump' at drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qlge/qlge_dbg.c:1106:2:
drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qlge/qlge_dbg.c:708:2: error: 'memcpy' reading 15 bytes from a region of size 14 [-Werror=stringop-overflow=]
memcpy(seg_hdr->description, desc, (sizeof(seg_hdr->description)) - 1);
Changing it to use strncpy() will instead zero-pad the destination,
which seems to be the right thing to do here.
The bug is probably harmless, but it seems like a good idea to address
it in stable kernels as well, if only for the purpose of building with
gcc-8 without warnings.
Fixes: a61f80261306 ("qlge: Add ethtool register dump function.")
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qlge/qlge_dbg.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qlge/qlge_dbg.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qlge/qlge_dbg.c
@@ -724,7 +724,7 @@ static void ql_build_coredump_seg_header
seg_hdr->cookie = MPI_COREDUMP_COOKIE;
seg_hdr->segNum = seg_number;
seg_hdr->segSize = seg_size;
- memcpy(seg_hdr->description, desc, (sizeof(seg_hdr->description)) - 1);
+ strncpy(seg_hdr->description, desc, (sizeof(seg_hdr->description)) - 1);
}
/*
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from arnd@xxxxxxxx are
queue-4.9/qlge-avoid-memcpy-buffer-overflow.patch