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Subject[PATCH] Fix off by one in nvidia driver strncpy size arg
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From: disconnect3d <dominik.b.czarnota@gmail.com>

This patch fixes an off-by-one error in strncpy size argument in
drivers/video/fbdev/nvidia/nvidia.c. The issue is that in:

strncmp(this_opt, "noaccel", 6)

the passed string literal: "noaccel" has 7 bytes (without the NULL byte)
and the passed size argument is 6. As a result, the logic will also
match/accept string "noacce" or "noacceX".

This bug doesn't seem to have any security impact since its present in
the driver's setup and just accepts slighty changed string to enable the
`noaccel` flag.

Signed-off-by: disconnect3d <dominik.b.czarnota@gmail.com>
---

Notes:
The bug could also be fixed by changing the size argument to
`sizeof("string literal")-1` but I am not proposing this change as that
would have to be changed in other places.

There are also more cases like this in kernel sources which I
reported/will report soon.

This bug has been found by running a massive grep-like search using
Google's BigQuery on GitHub repositories data. I am also going to work
on a CodeQL/Semmle query to be able to find more sophisticated cases
like this that can't be found via grepping.

drivers/video/fbdev/nvidia/nvidia.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/video/fbdev/nvidia/nvidia.c b/drivers/video/fbdev/nvidia/nvidia.c
index c583c018304d..b77efeb33477 100644
--- a/drivers/video/fbdev/nvidia/nvidia.c
+++ b/drivers/video/fbdev/nvidia/nvidia.c
@@ -1470,7 +1470,7 @@ static int nvidiafb_setup(char *options)
flatpanel = 1;
} else if (!strncmp(this_opt, "hwcur", 5)) {
hwcur = 1;
- } else if (!strncmp(this_opt, "noaccel", 6)) {
+ } else if (!strncmp(this_opt, "noaccel", 7)) {
noaccel = 1;
} else if (!strncmp(this_opt, "noscale", 7)) {
noscale = 1;
--
2.25.1
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