Re: [PATCH] gfs2: fix overread in the strlcpy of init_names

From: Dongliang Mu
Date: Tue Jun 28 2022 - 21:34:30 EST


On Tue, Jun 28, 2022 at 8:06 PM Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Dongliang Mu,
>
> On Tue, Jun 28, 2022 at 8:10 AM Dongliang Mu <dzm91@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > From: Dongliang Mu <mudongliangabcd@xxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > In init_names, strlcpy will overread the src string as the src string is
> > less than GFS2_FSNAME_LEN(256).
> >
> > Fix this by modifying strlcpy back to snprintf, reverting
> > the commit 00377d8e3842.
>
> ... if the source string isn't NULL-terminated. But in that case, the
> code will still do the same thing with this patch. In other words,
> this doesn't fix anything. So let's check for NULL termination
> instead.

Partially yes. Even if the source string is NULL-terminated, strlcpy
will invoke memcpy to overread the adjacent memory of source string as
the specified length is longer than source string.

>
> Thanks,
> Andreas
>
> > Fixes: 00377d8e3842 ("[GFS2] Prefer strlcpy() over snprintf()")
> > Reported-by: syzkaller <syzkaller@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Dongliang Mu <mudongliangabcd@xxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > fs/gfs2/ops_fstype.c | 4 ++--
> > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/fs/gfs2/ops_fstype.c b/fs/gfs2/ops_fstype.c
> > index c9b423c874a3..ee29b50d39b9 100644
> > --- a/fs/gfs2/ops_fstype.c
> > +++ b/fs/gfs2/ops_fstype.c
> > @@ -383,8 +383,8 @@ static int init_names(struct gfs2_sbd *sdp, int silent)
> > if (!table[0])
> > table = sdp->sd_vfs->s_id;
> >
> > - strlcpy(sdp->sd_proto_name, proto, GFS2_FSNAME_LEN);
> > - strlcpy(sdp->sd_table_name, table, GFS2_FSNAME_LEN);
> > + snprintf(sdp->sd_proto_name, GFS2_FSNAME_LEN, "%s", proto);
> > + snprintf(sdp->sd_table_name, GFS2_FSNAME_LEN, "%s", table);
> >
> > table = sdp->sd_table_name;
> > while ((table = strchr(table, '/')))
> > --
> > 2.35.1
> >
>