Re: [PATCH v2] scsi: zfcp: Replace strlcpy() with strscpy()

From: Benjamin Block
Date: Mon Dec 04 2023 - 12:22:31 EST


Hello Kees, Martin, James,

On Thu, Nov 30, 2023 at 12:41:00PM -0800, Kees Cook wrote:
> strlcpy() reads the entire source buffer first. This read may exceed
> the destination size limit. This is both inefficient and can lead
> to linear read overflows if a source string is not NUL-terminated[1].
> Additionally, it returns the size of the source string, not the
> resulting size of the destination string. In an effort to remove strlcpy()
> completely[2], replace strlcpy() here with strscpy().
>
> Overflow should be impossible here, but actually check for buffer sizes
> being identical with BUILD_BUG_ON(), and include a run-time check as
> well.
>
> Link: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/deprecated.html#strlcpy [1]
> Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/89 [2]

> ---
> drivers/s390/scsi/zfcp_fc.c | 15 +++++++++++++--
> 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/s390/scsi/zfcp_fc.c b/drivers/s390/scsi/zfcp_fc.c
> index 4f0d0e55f0d4..d6516ab00437 100644
> --- a/drivers/s390/scsi/zfcp_fc.c
> +++ b/drivers/s390/scsi/zfcp_fc.c
> @@ -900,8 +900,19 @@ static void zfcp_fc_rspn(struct zfcp_adapter *adapter,
> zfcp_fc_ct_ns_init(&rspn_req->ct_hdr, FC_NS_RSPN_ID,
> FC_SYMBOLIC_NAME_SIZE);
> hton24(rspn_req->rspn.fr_fid.fp_fid, fc_host_port_id(shost));
> - len = strlcpy(rspn_req->rspn.fr_name, fc_host_symbolic_name(shost),
> - FC_SYMBOLIC_NAME_SIZE);
> +
> + BUILD_BUG_ON(sizeof(rspn_req->name) !=
> + sizeof(fc_host_symbolic_name(shost)));
> + BUILD_BUG_ON(sizeof(rspn_req->name) !=
> + type_max(typeof(rspn_req->rspn.fr_name_len)) + 1);
> + len = strscpy(rspn_req->name, fc_host_symbolic_name(shost),
> + sizeof(rspn_req->name));
> + /*
> + * It should be impossible for this to truncate (see BUILD_BUG_ON()
> + * above), but be robust anyway.
> + */
> + if (WARN_ON(len < 0))
> + len = sizeof(rspn_req->name) - 1;

Looks good to me.


Acked-by: Benjamin Block <bblock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>


> rspn_req->rspn.fr_name_len = len;

Martin, James, can you please pick this up for the v6.8 queue?


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