Re: [PATCH] libertas: Avoid reading past end of buffer

From: Kees Cook
Date: Wed May 10 2017 - 15:06:16 EST


On Tue, May 9, 2017 at 9:33 PM, Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, 2017-05-09 at 16:23 -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
>> Using memcpy() from a string that is shorter than the length copied means
>> the destination buffer is being filled with arbitrary data from the kernel
>> rodata segment. Instead, use strncpy() which will fill the trailing bytes
>> with zeros. Additionally adjust indentation to keep checkpatch.pl happy.
>>
>> This was found with the future CONFIG_FORTIFY_SOURCE feature.
> []
>> diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/marvell/libertas/mesh.c b/drivers/net/wireless/marvell/libertas/mesh.c
> []
>> @@ -1177,9 +1177,9 @@ void lbs_mesh_ethtool_get_strings(struct net_device *dev,
>> switch (stringset) {
>> case ETH_SS_STATS:
>> for (i = 0; i < MESH_STATS_NUM; i++) {
>> - memcpy(s + i * ETH_GSTRING_LEN,
>> - mesh_stat_strings[i],
>> - ETH_GSTRING_LEN);
>> + strncpy(s + i * ETH_GSTRING_LEN,
>> + mesh_stat_strings[i],
>> + ETH_GSTRING_LEN);
>> }
>
> The better solution is to declare
> mesh_stat_strings in in the normal way
>
> ---
> drivers/net/wireless/marvell/libertas/mesh.c | 18 +++++++++---------
> 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/marvell/libertas/mesh.c b/drivers/net/wireless/marvell/libertas/mesh.c
> index d0c881dd5846..a535e7f48d2d 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/wireless/marvell/libertas/mesh.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/marvell/libertas/mesh.c
> @@ -1108,15 +1108,15 @@ void lbs_mesh_set_txpd(struct lbs_private *priv,
> * Ethtool related
> */
>
> -static const char * const mesh_stat_strings[] = {
> - "drop_duplicate_bcast",
> - "drop_ttl_zero",
> - "drop_no_fwd_route",
> - "drop_no_buffers",
> - "fwded_unicast_cnt",
> - "fwded_bcast_cnt",
> - "drop_blind_table",
> - "tx_failed_cnt"
> +static const char mesh_stat_strings[][ETH_GSTRING_LEN] = {
> + "drop_duplicate_bcast",
> + "drop_ttl_zero",
> + "drop_no_fwd_route",
> + "drop_no_buffers",
> + "fwded_unicast_cnt",
> + "fwded_bcast_cnt",
> + "drop_blind_table",
> + "tx_failed_cnt",
> };
>
> void lbs_mesh_ethtool_get_stats(struct net_device *dev,

Ah yeah! And that simplifies the memcpy too, since it can just do it
in one go. New patch on the way...

-Kees

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Kees Cook
Pixel Security