Hi, On Mon, Apr 22, 2024 at 9:37 AM Daniel Thompson <[email protected]> wrote: > > Currently, when the user attempts symbol completion with the Tab key, kdb > will use strncpy() to insert the completed symbol into the command buffer. > Unfortunately it passes the size of the source buffer rather than the > destination to strncpy() with predictably horrible results. Most obviously > if the command buffer is already full but cp, the cursor position, is in > the middle of the buffer, then we will write past the end of the supplied > buffer. > > Fix this by replacing the dubious strncpy() calls with memmove()/memcpy() > calls plus explicit boundary checks to make sure we have enough space > before we start moving characters around. > > Reported-by: Justin Stitt <[email protected]> > Closes: > https://lore.kernel.org/all/cafhgd8qesuuifuhsnjfpr-va3p80bxrw+lqvc8dea8gziuj...@mail.gmail.com/ > Cc: [email protected] > Signed-off-by: Daniel Thompson <[email protected]> > --- > kernel/debug/kdb/kdb_io.c | 21 +++++++++++++-------- > 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
Boy, this function (and especially the tab handling) is hard to read. I spent a bit of time trying to grok it and, as far as I can tell, your patch makes things better and I don't see any bugs. Reviewed-by: Douglas Anderson <[email protected]> _______________________________________________ Kgdb-bugreport mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/kgdb-bugreport
