| From | Greg Kroah-Hartman <> | Subject | [PATCH 4.4 010/112] lib/strscpy: Shut up KASAN false-positives in strscpy() | Date | Tue, 27 Oct 2020 14:48:40 +0100 |
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From: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com>
commit 1a3241ff10d038ecd096d03380327f2a0b5840a6 upstream.
strscpy() performs the word-at-a-time optimistic reads. So it may may access the memory past the end of the object, which is perfectly fine since strscpy() doesn't use that (past-the-end) data and makes sure the optimistic read won't cross a page boundary.
Use new read_word_at_a_time() to shut up the KASAN.
Note that this potentially could hide some bugs. In example bellow, stscpy() will copy more than we should (1-3 extra uninitialized bytes):
char dst[8]; char *src;
src = kmalloc(5, GFP_KERNEL); memset(src, 0xff, 5); strscpy(dst, src, 8);
Signed-off-by: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben.hutchings@codethink.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> --- lib/string.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/lib/string.c +++ b/lib/string.c @@ -202,7 +202,7 @@ ssize_t strscpy(char *dest, const char * while (max >= sizeof(unsigned long)) { unsigned long c, data; - c = *(unsigned long *)(src+res); + c = read_word_at_a_time(src+res); if (has_zero(c, &data, &constants)) { data = prep_zero_mask(c, data, &constants); data = create_zero_mask(data);
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