[PATCH 17/28] MIPS: cmdline: Refactor bootcmdline_append() to use snprintf()
From: Bill Wendling
Date: Tue Sep 15 2026 - 04:59:30 EST
bootcmdline_append() passes "max" (the maximum length of the source
string "s") as the destination buffer size argument to strlcat(). Because
strlcat() expects the total size of the destination buffer
(COMMAND_LINE_SIZE), it fails to append anything whenever "max" is smaller
than the current length of boot_command_line, and could overflow
boot_command_line if "max" exceeds COMMAND_LINE_SIZE.
In preparation for removing the deprecated strlcat() API[1], replace the
strlcat() calls with snprintf() using the "%.*s" precision specifier. This
bounds the read from "s" to at most "max" bytes while properly respecting
the remaining space in boot_command_line.
Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/370 [1]
Cc: codemender-patching+linux@xxxxxxxxxx
Assisted-by: SecurityEngineer:Gemini2.5Pro [editor_update_file, shell_command_run, make_kernel_build_single_file, test_runner_run_kunit_test]
Signed-off-by: Bill Wendling <morbo@xxxxxxxxxx>
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---
arch/mips/kernel/setup.c | 21 ++++++++++++++++++---
1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/mips/kernel/setup.c b/arch/mips/kernel/setup.c
index 1ae6d0c0e1d6..0d9c2137d675 100644
--- a/arch/mips/kernel/setup.c
+++ b/arch/mips/kernel/setup.c
@@ -518,13 +518,28 @@ static void __init check_kernel_sections_mem(void)
static void __init bootcmdline_append(const char *s, size_t max)
{
+ size_t len;
+ int prec;
+
if (!s[0] || !max)
return;
- if (boot_command_line[0])
- strlcat(boot_command_line, " ", COMMAND_LINE_SIZE);
+ len = strlen(boot_command_line);
+ if (len >= COMMAND_LINE_SIZE - 1)
+ return;
- strlcat(boot_command_line, s, max);
+ if (len) {
+ if (COMMAND_LINE_SIZE - len < 3)
+ return;
+
+ prec = min_t(size_t, max, COMMAND_LINE_SIZE - len - 2);
+ snprintf(boot_command_line + len, COMMAND_LINE_SIZE - len, " %.*s",
+ prec, s);
+ } else {
+ prec = min_t(size_t, max, COMMAND_LINE_SIZE - 1);
+ snprintf(boot_command_line, COMMAND_LINE_SIZE, "%.*s",
+ prec, s);
+ }
}
#ifdef CONFIG_OF_EARLY_FLATTREE
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