Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | Date | Thu, 13 Aug 2020 18:30:50 -0400 | From | Steven Rostedt <> | Subject | [PATCH] bootconfig: Fix off-by-one in xbc_node_compose_key_after() |
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From: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
While reviewing some patches for bootconfig, I noticed the following code in xbc_node_compose_key_after():
ret = snprintf(buf, size, "%s%s", xbc_node_get_data(node), depth ? "." : ""); if (ret < 0) return ret; if (ret > size) { size = 0; } else { size -= ret; buf += ret; }
But snprintf() returns the number of bytes that would be written, not the number of bytes that are written (ignoring the nul terminator). This means that if the number of non null bytes written were to equal size, then the nul byte, which snprintf() always adds, will overwrite that last byte.
ret = snprintf(buf, 5, "hello"); printf("buf = '%s'\n", buf); printf("ret = %d\n", ret);
produces:
buf = 'hell' ret = 5
The string was truncated without ret being greater than 5. Test (ret >= size) for overwrite.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Fixes: 76db5a27a827c ("bootconfig: Add Extra Boot Config support") Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org> --- diff --git a/lib/bootconfig.c b/lib/bootconfig.c index a5f701161f6b..42735f2b8860 100644 --- a/lib/bootconfig.c +++ b/lib/bootconfig.c @@ -248,7 +248,7 @@ int __init xbc_node_compose_key_after(struct xbc_node *root, depth ? "." : ""); if (ret < 0) return ret; - if (ret > size) { + if (ret >= size) { size = 0; } else { size -= ret;
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