Re: [PATCH v3] scsi: target: Replace strlcpy with strscpy

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On Thu, Aug 31, 2023 at 2:42 PM Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Aug 31, 2023 at 02:36:38PM +0000, Azeem Shaikh wrote:
> > strlcpy() reads the entire source buffer first.
> > This read may exceed the destination size limit.
> > This is both inefficient and can lead to linear read
> > overflows if a source string is not NUL-terminated [1].
> > In an effort to remove strlcpy() completely [2], replace
> > strlcpy() here with strscpy().
> >
> > Direct replacement is safe here since return value of -errno
> > is used to check for truncation instead of sizeof(dest).
> >
> > [1] https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/deprecated.html#strlcpy
> > [2] https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/89
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Azeem Shaikh <azeemshaikh38@xxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > v3:
> >  * Address readability comment.
> >
> > v2:
> >  * Replace all instances of strlcpy in this file instead of just 1.
> >  * https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230830210724.4156575-1-azeemshaikh38@xxxxxxxxx/
> >
> > v1:
> >  * https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230830200717.4129442-1-azeemshaikh38@xxxxxxxxx/
> >
> >  drivers/target/target_core_configfs.c |   24 ++++++++++++------------
> >  1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/target/target_core_configfs.c b/drivers/target/target_core_configfs.c
> > index 936e5ff1b209..d5860c1c1f46 100644
> > --- a/drivers/target/target_core_configfs.c
> > +++ b/drivers/target/target_core_configfs.c
> > @@ -1392,16 +1392,16 @@ static ssize_t target_wwn_vendor_id_store(struct config_item *item,
> >       /* +2 to allow for a trailing (stripped) '\n' and null-terminator */
> >       unsigned char buf[INQUIRY_VENDOR_LEN + 2];
> >       char *stripped = NULL;
> > -     size_t len;
> > +     ssize_t len;
> >       ssize_t ret;
> >
> > -     len = strlcpy(buf, page, sizeof(buf));
> > -     if (len < sizeof(buf)) {
> > +     len = strscpy(buf, page, sizeof(buf));
> > +     if (len > 0) {
> >               /* Strip any newline added from userspace. */
> >               stripped = strstrip(buf);
> >               len = strlen(stripped);
> >       }
> > -     if (len > INQUIRY_VENDOR_LEN) {
> > +     if (len < 0 || len > INQUIRY_VENDOR_LEN) {
>
> Agh, sorry I missed this before: the first "if" needs to be "len >= 0"
> otherwise this:
>
>         ret = target_check_inquiry_data(stripped);
>
> will be passing a NULL pointer...
>

Hmm, the current implementation of strscpy never returns 0. If
sizeof(buf) is 0, it'll return -E2BIG. Do you still prefer that I
update this to check for len >= 0?




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