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SubjectRe: [PATCH] scsi: ibmvscsis: Ensure partition name is properly NUL terminated
On Tue, Sep 11, 2018 at 11:15 AM, Laura Abbott <labbott@redhat.com> wrote:
> While reviewing another part of the code, Kees noticed that the
> strncpy of the partition name might not always be NUL terminated. Switch
> to using strlcpy which does this safely.
>
> Reported-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
> Signed-off-by: Laura Abbott <labbott@redhat.com>
> ---
> I realized looking at this that I probably should have made
> this and my previous patch a series given this has context depending on
> the other patch. I can resend if the scsi maintainers want.
> ---
> drivers/scsi/ibmvscsi_tgt/ibmvscsi_tgt.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/scsi/ibmvscsi_tgt/ibmvscsi_tgt.c b/drivers/scsi/ibmvscsi_tgt/ibmvscsi_tgt.c
> index 9305440a00a1..1217bf2a28db 100644
> --- a/drivers/scsi/ibmvscsi_tgt/ibmvscsi_tgt.c
> +++ b/drivers/scsi/ibmvscsi_tgt/ibmvscsi_tgt.c
> @@ -3477,7 +3477,7 @@ static int ibmvscsis_probe(struct vio_dev *vdev,
> snprintf(vscsi->eye, sizeof(vscsi->eye), "VSCSI%s", vdev->name);
>
> vscsi->dds.unit_id = vdev->unit_address;
> - strncpy(vscsi->dds.partition_name, partition_name,
> + strlcpy(vscsi->dds.partition_name, partition_name,

Please use strscpy() in favor of strlcpy().

-Kees

> sizeof(vscsi->dds.partition_name));
> vscsi->dds.partition_num = partition_number;
>
> --
> 2.17.1
>



--
Kees Cook
Pixel Security

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