Re: [PATCH] ipmi: refactor deprecated strncpy

[Justin Stitt]

On Tue, Sep 12, 2023 at 5:19 PM Corey Minyard <minyard@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Sep 12, 2023 at 11:43:05PM +0000, Justin Stitt wrote:
> > `strncpy` is deprecated for use on NUL-terminated destination strings [1].
> >
> > In this case, strncpy is being used specifically for its NUL-padding
> > behavior (and has been commented as such). We can use a more robust and
> > less ambiguous interface in `strscpy_pad` which makes the code more
> > readable and even eliminates the need for that comment.
> >
> > Let's also use `strnlen` instead of `strlen()` with an upper-bounds
> > check as this is intrinsically a part of `strnlen`.
> >
> > Also included in this patch is a simple 1:1 change of `strncpy` to
> > `strscpy` for ipmi_ssif.c. If NUL-padding is wanted here as well then we
> > should opt again for `strscpy_pad`.
> >
> > Link: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/deprecated.html#strncpy-on-nul-terminated-strings [1]
> > Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/90
> > Cc: linux-hardening@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Justin Stitt <justinstitt@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >  drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_msghandler.c | 11 +++--------
> >  drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_ssif.c       |  2 +-
> >  2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_msghandler.c b/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_msghandler.c
> > index 186f1fee7534..04f7622cb703 100644
> > --- a/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_msghandler.c
> > +++ b/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_msghandler.c
> > @@ -5377,20 +5377,15 @@ static void send_panic_events(struct ipmi_smi *intf, char *str)
> >
> >       j = 0;
> >       while (*p) {
> > -             int size = strlen(p);
> > +             int size = strnlen(p, 11);
> >
> > -             if (size > 11)
> > -                     size = 11;
> >               data[0] = 0;
> >               data[1] = 0;
> >               data[2] = 0xf0; /* OEM event without timestamp. */
> >               data[3] = intf->addrinfo[0].address;
> >               data[4] = j++; /* sequence # */
> > -             /*
> > -              * Always give 11 bytes, so strncpy will fill
> > -              * it with zeroes for me.
> > -              */
> > -             strncpy(data+5, p, 11);
> > +
> > +             strscpy_pad(data+5, p, 11);
>
> This is incorrect, the destination should *not* be nil terminated if the
> destination is full.  strncpy does exactly what is needed here.

Could we use `memcpy_and_pad()` as this matches the behavior of
strncpy in this case? I understand strncpy works here but I'm really
keen on snuffing out all its uses -- treewide.

>
> A comment should be added here, this is not the first time this has been
> brought up.
>
> >               p += size;
> >
> >               ipmi_panic_request_and_wait(intf, &addr, &msg);
> > diff --git a/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_ssif.c b/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_ssif.c
> > index 3b921c78ba08..edcb83765dce 100644
> > --- a/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_ssif.c
> > +++ b/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_ssif.c
> > @@ -1940,7 +1940,7 @@ static int new_ssif_client(int addr, char *adapter_name,
> >               }
> >       }
> >
> > -     strncpy(addr_info->binfo.type, DEVICE_NAME,
> > +     strscpy(addr_info->binfo.type, DEVICE_NAME,
> >               sizeof(addr_info->binfo.type));
>
> This one is good.
>
> -corey
>
> >       addr_info->binfo.addr = addr;
> >       addr_info->binfo.platform_data = addr_info;
> >
> > ---
> > base-commit: 2dde18cd1d8fac735875f2e4987f11817cc0bc2c
> > change-id: 20230912-strncpy-drivers-char-ipmi-ipmi-dda47b3773fd
> >
> > Best regards,
> > --
> > Justin Stitt <justinstitt@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >