Re: [PATCH v2] MIPS: validate DT bootargs before appending them

[Thomas Bogendoerfer]

On Tue, Apr 07, 2026 at 09:57:03AM +0800, Pengpeng Hou wrote:
> bootcmdline_scan_chosen() fetches the raw flat-DT bootargs property and
> passes it straight to bootcmdline_append(). That helper later feeds the
> same pointer into strlcat(), which computes strlen(src) before copying.
> Flat DT properties are external boot input, and this path does not
> prove that bootargs is NUL-terminated within its declared bounds.
> 
> Reject unterminated bootargs properties before appending them to the
> kernel command line.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Pengpeng Hou <pengpeng@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> Changes since v1:
> - use strnlen() instead of memchr() for the local NUL-termination check
> 
> arch/mips/kernel/setup.c | 4 ++++
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/mips/kernel/setup.c b/arch/mips/kernel/setup.c
> index f9b228e33f3b..1ae6d0c0e1d6 100644
> --- a/arch/mips/kernel/setup.c
> +++ b/arch/mips/kernel/setup.c
> @@ -31,6 +31,7 @@
>  #include <linux/of_fdt.h>
>  #include <linux/dmi.h>
>  #include <linux/crash_dump.h>
> +#include <linux/string.h>
>  
>  #include <asm/addrspace.h>
>  #include <asm/bootinfo.h>
> @@ -541,6 +542,9 @@ static int __init bootcmdline_scan_chosen(unsigned long node, const char *uname,
>  
>  	p = of_get_flat_dt_prop(node, "bootargs", &l);
>  	if (p != NULL && l > 0) {
> +		if (strnlen(p, l) >= l)
> +			return 1;
> +
>  		bootcmdline_append(p, min(l, COMMAND_LINE_SIZE));
>  		*dt_bootargs = true;
>  	}
> -- 
> 2.50.1 (Apple Git-155)

applied to mips-next

Thomas.

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