Re: [PATCH net-next v1] hinic: fix strncpy output truncated compile warnings

From: luobin (L)
Date: Sat Aug 08 2020 - 23:36:12 EST


On 2020/8/8 14:44, Kees Cook wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 07, 2020 at 08:42:43PM -0700, David Miller wrote:
>> From: "luobin (L)" <luobin9@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> Date: Sat, 8 Aug 2020 11:36:42 +0800
>>
>>> On 2020/8/7 17:32, David Laight wrote:
>>>>> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/huawei/hinic/hinic_devlink.c
>>>>> b/drivers/net/ethernet/huawei/hinic/hinic_devlink.c
>>>>> index c6adc776f3c8..1ec88ebf81d6 100644
>>>>> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/huawei/hinic/hinic_devlink.c
>>>>> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/huawei/hinic/hinic_devlink.c
>>>>> @@ -342,9 +342,9 @@ static int chip_fault_show(struct devlink_fmsg *fmsg,
>>>>>
>>>>> level = event->event.chip.err_level;
>>>>> if (level < FAULT_LEVEL_MAX)
>>>>> - strncpy(level_str, fault_level[level], strlen(fault_level[level]));
>>>>> + strncpy(level_str, fault_level[level], strlen(fault_level[level]) + 1);
>>>>
>>>> Have you even considered what that code is actually doing?
>> ...
>>> I'm sorry that I haven't got what you mean and I haven't found any defects in that code. Can you explain more to me?
>>
>> David is trying to express the same thing I was trying to explain to
>> you, you should use sizeof(level_str) as the third argument because
>> the code is trying to make sure that the destination buffer is not
>> overrun.
>>
>> If you use the strlen() of the source buffer, the strncpy() can still
>> overflow the destination buffer.
>>
>> Now do you understand?
>
> Agh, please never use strncpy() on NUL-terminated strings[1]. (You can
> see this ultimately gets passed down into devlink_fmsg_string_put()
> which expects NUL-terminated strings and does not require trailing
> NUL-padding (which if it did, should still never use strncpy(), but
> rather strscpy_pad()).
>
> But, as David Laight hints, none of this is needed. The entire buffer
> can be avoided (just point into the existing array of strings -- which
> should also be const). Add I see that one of the array sizes is wrong.
> Both use FAULT_TYPE_MAX, but one should be FAULT_LEVEL_MAX. And since
> "Unknown" can just be added to the array, do that and clamp the value
> since it's only used for finding the strings in the array.
>
> I would suggest this (totally untested):
>
> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/huawei/hinic/hinic_devlink.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/huawei/hinic/hinic_devlink.c
> index c6adc776f3c8..20bfb05896e5 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/huawei/hinic/hinic_devlink.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/huawei/hinic/hinic_devlink.c
> @@ -334,18 +334,12 @@ void hinic_devlink_unregister(struct hinic_devlink_priv *priv)
> static int chip_fault_show(struct devlink_fmsg *fmsg,
> struct hinic_fault_event *event)
> {
> - char fault_level[FAULT_TYPE_MAX][FAULT_SHOW_STR_LEN + 1] = {
> - "fatal", "reset", "flr", "general", "suggestion"};
> - char level_str[FAULT_SHOW_STR_LEN + 1] = {0};
> - u8 level;
> + const char * const level_str[FAULT_LEVEL_MAX + 1] = {
> + "fatal", "reset", "flr", "general", "suggestion",
> + [FAULT_LEVEL_MAX] = "Unknown"};
> + u8 fault_level;
> int err;
>
> - level = event->event.chip.err_level;
> - if (level < FAULT_LEVEL_MAX)
> - strncpy(level_str, fault_level[level], strlen(fault_level[level]));
> - else
> - strncpy(level_str, "Unknown", strlen("Unknown"));
> -
> if (level == FAULT_LEVEL_SERIOUS_FLR) {
> err = devlink_fmsg_u32_pair_put(fmsg, "Function level err func_id",
> (u32)event->event.chip.func_id);
> @@ -361,7 +355,8 @@ static int chip_fault_show(struct devlink_fmsg *fmsg,
> if (err)
> return err;
>
> - err = devlink_fmsg_string_pair_put(fmsg, "err_level", level_str);
> + fault_level = clamp(event->event.chip.err_level, FAULT_LEVEL_MAX);
> + err = devlink_fmsg_string_pair_put(fmsg, "err_level", fault_str[fault_level]);
> if (err)
> return err;
>
> @@ -381,18 +376,15 @@ static int chip_fault_show(struct devlink_fmsg *fmsg,
> static int fault_report_show(struct devlink_fmsg *fmsg,
> struct hinic_fault_event *event)
> {
> - char fault_type[FAULT_TYPE_MAX][FAULT_SHOW_STR_LEN + 1] = {
> + const char * const type_str[FAULT_TYPE_MAX + 1] = {
> "chip", "ucode", "mem rd timeout", "mem wr timeout",
> - "reg rd timeout", "reg wr timeout", "phy fault"};
> - char type_str[FAULT_SHOW_STR_LEN + 1] = {0};
> + "reg rd timeout", "reg wr timeout", "phy fault",
> + [FAULT_TYPE_MAX] = "Unknown"};
> + u8 fault_type;
> int err;
>
> - if (event->type < FAULT_TYPE_MAX)
> - strncpy(type_str, fault_type[event->type], strlen(fault_type[event->type]));
> - else
> - strncpy(type_str, "Unknown", strlen("Unknown"));
> -
> - err = devlink_fmsg_string_pair_put(fmsg, "Fault type", type_str);
> + fault_type = clamp(event->type, FAULT_TYPE_MAX);
> + err = devlink_fmsg_string_pair_put(fmsg, "Fault type", type_str[fault_type]);
> if (err)
> return err;
>
>
>
> -Kees
>
> [1] https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/deprecated.html#strncpy-on-nul-terminated-strings
>
Thanks for your explanation and review. I haven't realized using strncpy() on NUL-terminated strings is deprecated
and just trying to avoid the compile warnings. The website you provide helps me a lot. Thank you very much!