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]. In an effort
to remove strlcpy() completely [2], replace strlcpy() here with strscpy().
No return values were used, so direct replacement is safe.
[1] https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/deprecated.html#strlcpy
[2] https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/89
Signed-off-by: Azeem Shaikh <azeemshaikh38@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230530155818.368562-1-azeemshaikh38@gmail.com
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
char ifname[IFNAMSIZ + 2];
if (buffer) {
- strlcpy(ifname, buffer, IFNAMSIZ);
+ strscpy(ifname, buffer, IFNAMSIZ);
cp = ifname + strlen(ifname);
while (--cp >= ifname && *cp == '\n')
*cp = '\0';