[PATCH] drm: etnaviv: fix strncpy sizeof argument
Russell King - ARM Linux admin
linux at armlinux.org.uk
Tue Mar 19 10:22:16 UTC 2019
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.yubo at 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.
strlcpy() would be a better replacement, it guarantees that the
destination will be correctly terminated.
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