Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] crypto: Fix -Wstringop-truncation warnings

[Christophe LEROY]

Le 25/06/2018 Ã 14:45, Stafford Horne a ÃcritÂ:
> As of GCC 9.0.0 the build is reporting warnings like:
>
>      crypto/ablkcipher.c: In function âcrypto_ablkcipher_reportâ:
>      crypto/ablkcipher.c:374:2: warning: âstrncpyâ specified bound 64 equals destination size [-Wstringop-truncation]
>        strncpy(rblkcipher.geniv, alg->cra_ablkcipher.geniv ?: "<default>",
>        ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>         sizeof(rblkcipher.geniv));
>         ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
> This means the strnycpy might create a non null terminated string.  Fix this by
> explicitly performing '\0' termination.
>
> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Max Filippov <jcmvbkbc@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Eric Biggers <ebiggers3@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Nick Desaulniers <nick.desaulniers@xxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Stafford Horne <shorne@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>   crypto/ablkcipher.c | 2 ++
>   crypto/blkcipher.c  | 1 +
>   2 files changed, 3 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/crypto/ablkcipher.c b/crypto/ablkcipher.c
> index d880a4897159..1edb5000d783 100644
> --- a/crypto/ablkcipher.c
> +++ b/crypto/ablkcipher.c
> @@ -373,6 +373,7 @@ static int crypto_ablkcipher_report(struct sk_buff *skb, struct crypto_alg *alg)
>   	strncpy(rblkcipher.type, "ablkcipher", sizeof(rblkcipher.type));
>   	strncpy(rblkcipher.geniv, alg->cra_ablkcipher.geniv ?: "<default>",
>   		sizeof(rblkcipher.geniv));

Is it worth copying something we are going to discard at the following 
line ? Shouldn't you limit the copy to      sizeof(rblkcipher.geniv) - 1   ?

> +	rblkcipher.geniv[sizeof(rblkcipher.geniv) - 1] = '\0';
>   
>   	rblkcipher.blocksize = alg->cra_blocksize;
>   	rblkcipher.min_keysize = alg->cra_ablkcipher.min_keysize;
> @@ -447,6 +448,7 @@ static int crypto_givcipher_report(struct sk_buff *skb, struct crypto_alg *alg)
>   	strncpy(rblkcipher.type, "givcipher", sizeof(rblkcipher.type));
>   	strncpy(rblkcipher.geniv, alg->cra_ablkcipher.geniv ?: "<built-in>",
>   		sizeof(rblkcipher.geniv));

Same comment here.

Christophe

> +	rblkcipher.geniv[sizeof(rblkcipher.geniv) - 1] = '\0';
>   
>   	rblkcipher.blocksize = alg->cra_blocksize;
>   	rblkcipher.min_keysize = alg->cra_ablkcipher.min_keysize;
> diff --git a/crypto/blkcipher.c b/crypto/blkcipher.c
> index 01c0d4aa2563..dd4dcab3766a 100644
> --- a/crypto/blkcipher.c
> +++ b/crypto/blkcipher.c
> @@ -512,6 +512,7 @@ static int crypto_blkcipher_report(struct sk_buff *skb, struct crypto_alg *alg)
>   	strncpy(rblkcipher.type, "blkcipher", sizeof(rblkcipher.type));
>   	strncpy(rblkcipher.geniv, alg->cra_blkcipher.geniv ?: "<default>",
>   		sizeof(rblkcipher.geniv));
> +	rblkcipher.geniv[sizeof(rblkcipher.geniv) - 1] = '\0';
>   
>   	rblkcipher.blocksize = alg->cra_blocksize;
>   	rblkcipher.min_keysize = alg->cra_blkcipher.min_keysize;