On Tue, Mar 19, 2019 at 6:22 PM Russell King - ARM Linux admin
<li...@armlinux.org.uk> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Mar 18, 2019 at 10:57:55PM -0400, Bo YU wrote:
> > Calling strncpy with a maximum size argument of 64 bytes on destination
> > array "domain->name" of size 64 bytes might leave the destination string
> > unterminated.
> >
> > Detected by CoverityScan, CID# 1443992: Memory - illegal accesses
> > (BUFFER_SIZE_WARNING)
> >
> > Fixes: 9e2c2e2730126 (drm/etnaviv: add infrastructure to query perf counter)
> > Signed-off-by: Bo YU <tsu.y...@gmail.com>
> > ---
> > drivers/gpu/drm/etnaviv/etnaviv_perfmon.c | 2 +-
> > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/etnaviv/etnaviv_perfmon.c
> > b/drivers/gpu/drm/etnaviv/etnaviv_perfmon.c
> > index 4227a4006c34..08ca3c44be48 100644
> > --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/etnaviv/etnaviv_perfmon.c
> > +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/etnaviv/etnaviv_perfmon.c
> > @@ -414,7 +414,7 @@ int etnaviv_pm_query_dom(struct etnaviv_gpu *gpu,
> >
> > domain->id = domain->iter;
> > domain->nr_signals = dom->nr_signals;
> > - strncpy(domain->name, dom->name, sizeof(domain->name));
> > + strncpy(domain->name, dom->name, sizeof(dom->name));
>
> This introduces an overflow bug if sizeof(dom->name) >
> sizeof(domain->name). If both sizes are the same, then there is no
> effect.
Oops,It seems more worse than original code.
>
> strlcpy() would be a better replacement, it guarantees that the
> destination will be correctly terminated.
But there are too many strcpy like usage in kernel, Does it matter?
>
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