Re: [PATCH] tools/x86/kcpuid: bound CSV field copies to avoid overflow

[Borislav Petkov]

On Sat, May 02, 2026 at 03:10:30PM -0700, rafad900 wrote:
> I added bounded copies of the bit descriptions to avoid possible
> overflows. I tested by compiling the tool and scp into qemu along with
> the .csv file. Then ran the tool and saw no errors
> 
> Signed-off-by: rafad900 <19312533+rafad900@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Please read this here to know how to prepare x86 kernel patches and their format:

https://docs.kernel.org/process/maintainer-tip.html

Also:

https://docs.kernel.org/process/index.html

for a general idea.

> ---
>  tools/arch/x86/kcpuid/kcpuid.c | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/tools/arch/x86/kcpuid/kcpuid.c b/tools/arch/x86/kcpuid/kcpuid.c
> index 7dc6b9235d02..c17dbcf453eb 100644
> --- a/tools/arch/x86/kcpuid/kcpuid.c
> +++ b/tools/arch/x86/kcpuid/kcpuid.c
> @@ -415,8 +415,8 @@ static void parse_line(char *line)
>  
>  		bdesc->end = bit_end;
>  		bdesc->start = bit_start;
> -		strcpy(bdesc->simp, strtok(tokens[4], " \t"));
> -		strcpy(bdesc->detail, tokens[5]);
> +		strncpy(bdesc->simp, strtok(tokens[4], " \t"), sizeof(bdesc->simp) - 1);
> +		strncpy(bdesc->detail, tokens[5], sizeof(bdesc->detail) - 1);

That's better but your bdesc buffers still contain stack garbage and nothing
NUL-terminates those strings.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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