Re: [PATCH v2] kdb: Use strscpy with destination buffer size

From: Daniel Thompson
Date: Tue Oct 02 2018 - 11:53:23 EST


On 20/09/2018 13:59, Prarit Bhargava wrote:
gcc 8.1.0 warns with:

kernel/debug/kdb/kdb_support.c: In function âkallsyms_symbol_nextâ:
kernel/debug/kdb/kdb_support.c:239:4: warning: âstrncpyâ specified bound depends on the length of the source argument [-Wstringop-overflow=]
strncpy(prefix_name, name, strlen(name)+1);
^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
kernel/debug/kdb/kdb_support.c:239:31: note: length computed here

Use strscpy() with the destination buffer size, and use ellipses when
displaying truncated symbols.

v2: Use strscpy()

Signed-off-by: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Jonathan Toppins <jtoppins@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: kgdb-bugreport@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
---
kernel/debug/kdb/kdb_io.c | 15 +++++++++------
kernel/debug/kdb/kdb_private.h | 2 +-
kernel/debug/kdb/kdb_support.c | 10 +++++-----
3 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/debug/kdb/kdb_io.c b/kernel/debug/kdb/kdb_io.c
index ed5d34925ad0..6a4b41484afe 100644
--- a/kernel/debug/kdb/kdb_io.c
+++ b/kernel/debug/kdb/kdb_io.c
@@ -216,7 +216,7 @@ static char *kdb_read(char *buffer, size_t bufsize)
int count;
int i;
int diag, dtab_count;
- int key;
+ int key, buf_size, ret;
diag = kdbgetintenv("DTABCOUNT", &dtab_count);
@@ -336,9 +336,8 @@ static char *kdb_read(char *buffer, size_t bufsize)
else
p_tmp = tmpbuffer;
len = strlen(p_tmp);
- count = kallsyms_symbol_complete(p_tmp,
- sizeof(tmpbuffer) -
- (p_tmp - tmpbuffer));
+ buf_size = sizeof(tmpbuffer) - (p_tmp - tmpbuffer);
+ count = kallsyms_symbol_complete(p_tmp, buf_size);
if (tab == 2 && count > 0) {
kdb_printf("\n%d symbols are found.", count);
if (count > dtab_count) {
@@ -350,9 +349,13 @@ static char *kdb_read(char *buffer, size_t bufsize)
}
kdb_printf("\n");
for (i = 0; i < count; i++) {
- if (WARN_ON(!kallsyms_symbol_next(p_tmp, i)))
+ ret = kallsyms_symbol_next(p_tmp, i, buf_size);
+ if (WARN_ON(!ret))
break;
I'm getting confused by having two different branches on ret.

Don't get a WARN_ON() when ret == -E2BIG?


Daniel.


- kdb_printf("%s ", p_tmp);
+ if (ret != -E2BIG)
+ kdb_printf("%s ", p_tmp);
+ else
+ kdb_printf("%s... ", p_tmp);
*(p_tmp + len) = '\0';
}
if (i >= dtab_count)