[PATCH 4.4 002/101] net: dont call strlen on non-terminated string in dev_set_alias()
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Mon Jul 03 2017 - 11:11:36 EST
4.4-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Alexander Potapenko <glider@xxxxxxxxxx>
[ Upstream commit c28294b941232931fbd714099798eb7aa7e865d7 ]
KMSAN reported a use of uninitialized memory in dev_set_alias(),
which was caused by calling strlcpy() (which in turn called strlen())
on the user-supplied non-terminated string.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Potapenko <glider@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
net/core/dev.c | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/net/core/dev.c
+++ b/net/core/dev.c
@@ -1246,8 +1246,9 @@ int dev_set_alias(struct net_device *dev
if (!new_ifalias)
return -ENOMEM;
dev->ifalias = new_ifalias;
+ memcpy(dev->ifalias, alias, len);
+ dev->ifalias[len] = 0;
- strlcpy(dev->ifalias, alias, len+1);
return len;
}