Revert "HID: uhid: use strlcpy() instead of strncpy()"
authorDavid Herrmann <dh.herrmann@gmail.com>
Wed, 14 Nov 2018 13:16:42 +0000 (14:16 +0100)
committerJiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Mon, 19 Nov 2018 13:32:27 +0000 (14:32 +0100)
This reverts commit 336fd4f5f25157e9e8bd50e898a1bbcd99eaea46.

Please note that `strlcpy()` does *NOT* do what you think it does.
strlcpy() *ALWAYS* reads the full input string, regardless of the
'length' parameter. That is, if the input is not zero-terminated,
strlcpy() will *READ* beyond input boundaries. It does this, because it
always returns the size it *would* copy if the target was big enough,
not the truncated size it actually copied.

The original code was perfectly fine. The hid device is
zero-initialized and the strncpy() functions copied up to n-1
characters. The result is always zero-terminated this way.

This is the third time someone tried to replace strncpy with strlcpy in
this function, and gets it wrong. I now added a comment that should at
least make people reconsider.

Signed-off-by: David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
drivers/hid/uhid.c

index 051639c09f7287c4781a53bdcfa827372aeb4fb8..840634e0f1e3cc46235cf456a04e547f2be65ba8 100644 (file)
@@ -497,12 +497,13 @@ static int uhid_dev_create2(struct uhid_device *uhid,
                goto err_free;
        }
 
-       len = min(sizeof(hid->name), sizeof(ev->u.create2.name));
-       strlcpy(hid->name, ev->u.create2.name, len);
-       len = min(sizeof(hid->phys), sizeof(ev->u.create2.phys));
-       strlcpy(hid->phys, ev->u.create2.phys, len);
-       len = min(sizeof(hid->uniq), sizeof(ev->u.create2.uniq));
-       strlcpy(hid->uniq, ev->u.create2.uniq, len);
+       /* @hid is zero-initialized, strncpy() is correct, strlcpy() not */
+       len = min(sizeof(hid->name), sizeof(ev->u.create2.name)) - 1;
+       strncpy(hid->name, ev->u.create2.name, len);
+       len = min(sizeof(hid->phys), sizeof(ev->u.create2.phys)) - 1;
+       strncpy(hid->phys, ev->u.create2.phys, len);
+       len = min(sizeof(hid->uniq), sizeof(ev->u.create2.uniq)) - 1;
+       strncpy(hid->uniq, ev->u.create2.uniq, len);
 
        hid->ll_driver = &uhid_hid_driver;
        hid->bus = ev->u.create2.bus;