On 17 Dec 2024, at 12:07, Trond Myklebust wrote:
On Tue, 2024-12-17 at 16:51 +0000, Trond Myklebust wrote:
On Wed, 2024-12-18 at 00:13 +0800, Gax-c wrote:
From: Zichen Xie zichenxie0106@gmail.com
name is char[64] where the size of clnt->cl_program->name remains unknown. Invoking strcat() directly will also lead to potential buffer overflow. Change them to strscpy() and strncat() to fix potential issues.
What makes you think that clnt->cl_program->name is unknown?
All calls to nfs_sysfs_link_rpc_client() use well known RPC clients for which the cl_program is pointing to one of nlm_program, nfs_program or nfsacl_program. So we know very well the sizes of clnt->cl_program-
name.
Just to clarify: I'm not strongly against the patch itself. However it would seem premature to consider this a bug, let alone a stable fix candidate.
Has anyone ever seen a buffer overflow here? If so, under which circumstances?
No, there's no way in the current kernel, but I suppose both nfs_sysfs_link_rpc_client() as well as rpc_create() are exported, so we could end up having some other part of the kernel send a long "uniq" or create a client with a long cl_program->name. That change might escape our review.
Probably not a bad idea to send it back to stable IMO, since a change like that could get back there too.
Reviewed-by: Benjamin Coddington bcodding@redhat.com
Ben