userdatum_value_store() bounds count by MAX_EXTRADATA_VALUE_LEN (200)
and then copies straight into udm->value, which is itself 200 bytes:
if (count > MAX_EXTRADATA_VALUE_LEN)
return -EMSGSIZE;
...
ret = strscpy(udm->value, buf, sizeof(udm->value));
if (ret < 0)
goto out_unlock;
If userspace writes exactly MAX_EXTRADATA_VALUE_LEN bytes with no NUL
within them, strscpy() copies 199 bytes plus a NUL into udm->value and
returns -E2BIG. The function jumps to out_unlock and reports the error
to userspace, but udm->value has already been overwritten with the
truncated string and update_userdata() is skipped, so the corruption
is not yet visible on the wire.
The next successful write to any userdatum entry under the same target
calls update_userdata(), which packs udm->value into the active
netconsole payload. From that point on, every netconsole message
carries the silently truncated value, and userspace has no indication
that a previous, error-returning write left state behind.
Tighten the entry check from "count > MAX_EXTRADATA_VALUE_LEN" to
"count >= MAX_EXTRADATA_VALUE_LEN". With count strictly less than
sizeof(udm->value), strscpy() can no longer return -E2BIG here, so
the corrupting truncation path is removed entirely.
Fixes: 8a6d5fec6c7f ("net: netconsole: add a userdata config_group member to netconsole_target")
Signed-off-by: Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260427-netconsole_ai_fixes-v2-2-59965f29d9cc@debian.org
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
struct userdata *ud;
ssize_t ret;
- if (count > MAX_EXTRADATA_VALUE_LEN)
+ if (count >= MAX_EXTRADATA_VALUE_LEN)
return -EMSGSIZE;
mutex_lock(&netconsole_subsys.su_mutex);
dynamic_netconsole_mutex_lock();
-
- ret = strscpy(udm->value, buf, sizeof(udm->value));
- if (ret < 0)
- goto out_unlock;
+ /* count is bounded above, so strscpy() cannot truncate here */
+ strscpy(udm->value, buf, sizeof(udm->value));
trim_newline(udm->value, sizeof(udm->value));
ud = to_userdata(item->ci_parent);