From: Andrey Ryabinin Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2018 18:00:50 +0000 (+0300) Subject: lib/strscpy: Shut up KASAN false-positives in strscpy() X-Git-Tag: v4.4.241~103 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=a3eedd10c0c7425af8f6e5e9e8c53645636483e5;p=thirdparty%2Fkernel%2Fstable.git lib/strscpy: Shut up KASAN false-positives in strscpy() commit 1a3241ff10d038ecd096d03380327f2a0b5840a6 upstream. strscpy() performs the word-at-a-time optimistic reads. So it may may access the memory past the end of the object, which is perfectly fine since strscpy() doesn't use that (past-the-end) data and makes sure the optimistic read won't cross a page boundary. Use new read_word_at_a_time() to shut up the KASAN. Note that this potentially could hide some bugs. In example bellow, stscpy() will copy more than we should (1-3 extra uninitialized bytes): char dst[8]; char *src; src = kmalloc(5, GFP_KERNEL); memset(src, 0xff, 5); strscpy(dst, src, 8); Signed-off-by: Andrey Ryabinin Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- diff --git a/lib/string.c b/lib/string.c index c9983dc01e727..7f4baad6fb193 100644 --- a/lib/string.c +++ b/lib/string.c @@ -202,7 +202,7 @@ ssize_t strscpy(char *dest, const char *src, size_t count) while (max >= sizeof(unsigned long)) { unsigned long c, data; - c = *(unsigned long *)(src+res); + c = read_word_at_a_time(src+res); if (has_zero(c, &data, &constants)) { data = prep_zero_mask(c, data, &constants); data = create_zero_mask(data);