Re: [PATCH] gfs2: fix overread in the strlcpy of init_names

[Andreas Gruenbacher]

Dongliang Mu,

On Tue, Jun 28, 2022 at 8:10 AM Dongliang Mu <dzm91@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> From: Dongliang Mu <mudongliangabcd@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> In init_names, strlcpy will overread the src string as the src string is
> less than GFS2_FSNAME_LEN(256).
>
> Fix this by modifying strlcpy back to snprintf, reverting
> the commit 00377d8e3842.

... if the source string isn't NULL-terminated. But in that case, the
code will still do the same thing with this patch. In other words,
this doesn't fix anything. So let's check for NULL termination
instead.

Thanks,
Andreas

> Fixes: 00377d8e3842 ("[GFS2] Prefer strlcpy() over snprintf()")
> Reported-by: syzkaller <syzkaller@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Dongliang Mu <mudongliangabcd@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  fs/gfs2/ops_fstype.c | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/fs/gfs2/ops_fstype.c b/fs/gfs2/ops_fstype.c
> index c9b423c874a3..ee29b50d39b9 100644
> --- a/fs/gfs2/ops_fstype.c
> +++ b/fs/gfs2/ops_fstype.c
> @@ -383,8 +383,8 @@ static int init_names(struct gfs2_sbd *sdp, int silent)
>         if (!table[0])
>                 table = sdp->sd_vfs->s_id;
>
> -       strlcpy(sdp->sd_proto_name, proto, GFS2_FSNAME_LEN);
> -       strlcpy(sdp->sd_table_name, table, GFS2_FSNAME_LEN);
> +       snprintf(sdp->sd_proto_name, GFS2_FSNAME_LEN, "%s", proto);
> +       snprintf(sdp->sd_table_name, GFS2_FSNAME_LEN, "%s", table);
>
>         table = sdp->sd_table_name;
>         while ((table = strchr(table, '/')))
> --
> 2.35.1
>