[PATCHv2] perf jvmti: Fix gcc string overflow warning

From: Jiri Olsa
Date: Fri May 31 2019 - 09:17:14 EST


On Fri, May 31, 2019 at 09:05:30AM -0300, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:

SNIP

> The kernel folks moved beyond that and in lib/string.c we have:
>
> /**
> * strscpy - Copy a C-string into a sized buffer
> * @dest: Where to copy the string to
> * @src: Where to copy the string from
> * @count: Size of destination buffer
> *
> * Copy the string, or as much of it as fits, into the dest buffer. The
> * behavior is undefined if the string buffers overlap. The destination
> * buffer is always NUL terminated, unless it's zero-sized.
> *
> * Preferred to strlcpy() since the API doesn't require reading memory
> * from the src string beyond the specified "count" bytes, and since
> * the return value is easier to error-check than strlcpy()'s.
> * In addition, the implementation is robust to the string changing out
> * from underneath it, unlike the current strlcpy() implementation.
> *
> * Preferred to strncpy() since it always returns a valid string, and
> * doesn't unnecessarily force the tail of the destination buffer to be
> * zeroed. If zeroing is desired please use strscpy_pad().
> *
> * Return: The number of characters copied (not including the trailing
> * %NUL) or -E2BIG if the destination buffer wasn't big enough.
> */
> ssize_t strscpy(char *dest, const char *src, size_t count)
>
>
>
> I think for these needs flipping that 'n' into a 'l' is good enough.

ok, I forgot there's strlcpy.. v2 attached

thanks,
jirka


---
We are getting fake gcc warning when we compile with gcc9 (9.1.1):

CC jvmti/libjvmti.o
In file included from /usr/include/string.h:494,
from jvmti/libjvmti.c:5:
In function âstrncpyâ,
inlined from âcopy_class_filename.constpropâ at jvmti/libjvmti.c:166:3:
/usr/include/bits/string_fortified.h:106:10: error: â__builtin_strncpyâ specified bound depends on the length of the source argument [-Werror=stringop-overflow=]
106 | return __builtin___strncpy_chk (__dest, __src, __len, __bos (__dest));
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
jvmti/libjvmti.c: In function âcopy_class_filename.constpropâ:
jvmti/libjvmti.c:165:26: note: length computed here
165 | size_t file_name_len = strlen(file_name);
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
cc1: all warnings being treated as errors

As per Arnaldo's suggestion using strlcpy, which does
the same thing and keeps gcc silent.

Cc: Ben Gainey <ben.gainey@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@xxxxxxxxxx>
Suggested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-sve3b63c550wr907e6ui6gx5@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
tools/perf/jvmti/libjvmti.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/perf/jvmti/libjvmti.c b/tools/perf/jvmti/libjvmti.c
index aea7b1fe85aa..c441a34cb1c0 100644
--- a/tools/perf/jvmti/libjvmti.c
+++ b/tools/perf/jvmti/libjvmti.c
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
#include <linux/compiler.h>
+#include <linux/string.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>
@@ -162,8 +163,7 @@ copy_class_filename(const char * class_sign, const char * file_name, char * resu
result[i] = '\0';
} else {
/* fallback case */
- size_t file_name_len = strlen(file_name);
- strncpy(result, file_name, file_name_len < max_length ? file_name_len : max_length);
+ strlcpy(result, file_name, max_length);
}
}

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2.21.0