[PATCH] um: Replace strncpy() with strnlen()+memcpy_and_pad() in strncpy_chunk_from_user()

Kees Cook <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.uml.devel,gmane.linux.kernel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Replace the deprecated[1] strncpy() with strnlen() on the source
followed by memcpy_and_pad().

This function is a chunk callback for UML's strncpy_from_user()
implementation, called by buffer_op() to process userspace memory one
page at a time. The source is a kernel-mapped userspace address that
is not guaranteed to be NUL-terminated; "len" bounds how many bytes
to read from it.

By measuring the source string length first with strnlen(), we avoid
reading past the NUL terminator in the source. memcpy_and_pad() then
copies the string content and zero-fills the remainder of the chunk,
preserving the original strncpy() behavior exactly: copy up to the
first NUL, then pad with zeros to the full length.

strtomem_pad() would be the idiomatic helper for this strnlen() +
memcpy_and_pad() pattern, but it requires a compile-time-determinable
destination size (via ARRAY_SIZE()). Here the destination is a char *
into a caller-provided buffer and the chunk length is a runtime value,
so the explicit two-step is necessary.

No behavioral change: the same bytes are written to the destination
(string content followed by zero padding), the pointer advances by
the same amount, and the NUL-found return condition is unchanged.

Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/90 [1]
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <[email protected]>
---
 arch/um/kernel/skas/uaccess.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/um/kernel/skas/uaccess.c b/arch/um/kernel/skas/uaccess.c
index 198269e384c4..caef1deef795 100644
--- a/arch/um/kernel/skas/uaccess.c
+++ b/arch/um/kernel/skas/uaccess.c
@@ -170,8 +170,8 @@ static int strncpy_chunk_from_user(unsigned long from, int len, void *arg)
 	char **to_ptr = arg, *to = *to_ptr;
 	int n;
 
-	strncpy(to, (void *) from, len);
-	n = strnlen(to, len);
+	n = strnlen((void *) from, len);
+	memcpy_and_pad(to, len, (void *) from, n, 0);
 	*to_ptr += n;
 
 	if (n < len)
-- 
2.34.1
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