Re: [PATCH] kdb: fix strncpy warning

[Daniel Thompson]

On Fri, Nov 02, 2018 at 02:24:05PM -0700, Olof Johansson wrote:
> kdb does a strncpy(a, b, strlen(b)+1), which makes no sense. Might as
> well do a strcpy at this point.
> 
> Fixes this warning:
> 
> In function 'strncpy', inlined from 'kallsyms_symbol_next' at kernel/debug/kdb/kdb_support.c:239:4:
> ./include/linux/string.h:253:9: warning: '__builtin_strncpy' specified bound depends on the length of the source argument [-Wstringop-overflow=]

I think we already have a pending patch for this:
https://lore.kernel.org/patchwork/patch/989013/

When we looked into this there actually is an unchecked overflow here so
Prarit's fix adds infrastructure to keep track of the remaining length.


Daniel.


> 
> Signed-off-by: Olof Johansson <olof@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  kernel/debug/kdb/kdb_support.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/kernel/debug/kdb/kdb_support.c b/kernel/debug/kdb/kdb_support.c
> index 990b3cc526c8..d5af8b38b84d 100644
> --- a/kernel/debug/kdb/kdb_support.c
> +++ b/kernel/debug/kdb/kdb_support.c
> @@ -236,7 +236,7 @@ int kallsyms_symbol_next(char *prefix_name, int flag)
>  
>  	while ((name = kdb_walk_kallsyms(&pos))) {
>  		if (strncmp(name, prefix_name, prefix_len) == 0) {
> -			strncpy(prefix_name, name, strlen(name)+1);
> +			strcpy(prefix_name, name);
>  			return 1;
>  		}
>  	}
> -- 
> 2.11.0
>