Re: [PATCH] usbip: tools: fix atoi() on non-null terminated string

From: Shuah Khan
Date: Thu Oct 25 2018 - 14:49:33 EST


Hi Colin,

On 10/16/2018 12:03 PM, Colin King wrote:
> From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Currently the call to atoi is being passed a single char string
> that is not null terminated, so there is a potential read overrun
> along the stack when parsing for an integer value. Fix this by
> instead using a 2 char string that is initialized to all zeros
> to ensure that a 1 char read into the string is always terminated
> with a \0.
>
> Detected by cppcheck:
> "Invalid atoi() argument nr 1. A nul-terminated string is required."
>
> Fixes: 3391ba0e2792 ("usbip: tools: Extract generic code to be shared with vudc backend")
> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> tools/usb/usbip/libsrc/usbip_host_common.c | 6 +++---
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/tools/usb/usbip/libsrc/usbip_host_common.c b/tools/usb/usbip/libsrc/usbip_host_common.c
> index dc93fadbee96..d79c7581b175 100644
> --- a/tools/usb/usbip/libsrc/usbip_host_common.c
> +++ b/tools/usb/usbip/libsrc/usbip_host_common.c
> @@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ static int32_t read_attr_usbip_status(struct usbip_usb_device *udev)
> int size;
> int fd;
> int length;
> - char status;
> + char status[2] = { 0 }> int value = 0;
>
> size = snprintf(status_attr_path, sizeof(status_attr_path),
> @@ -61,14 +61,14 @@ static int32_t read_attr_usbip_status(struct usbip_usb_device *udev)
> return -1;
> }
>
> - length = read(fd, &status, 1);
> + length = read(fd, status, 1);
> if (length < 0) {
> err("error reading attribute %s", status_attr_path);
> close(fd);
> return -1;
> }
>
> - value = atoi(&status);
> + value = atoi(status);
>
> return value;
> }
>

Thanks for the patch. Looks good to me.

Acked-by: Shuah Khan <shuah@xxxxxxxxxx>

thanks,
-- Shuah