[PATCH] selftests/powerpc: Fix strncpy usage

Breno Leitao leitao at debian.org
Thu Jun 21 08:51:11 AEST 2018


There is a buffer overflow in dscr_inherit_test.c test. In main(), strncpy()'s
third argument is the lengh of the source, not the size of the destination
buffer, which makes strncpy() behaves like strcpy(), causing a buffer overflow
if argv[0] is bigger than LEN_MAX (100).

This patch simply limit the string copy to sizeof(prog) less 1 (space for \0).

CC: Anshuman Khandual <khandual at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Breno Leitao <leitao at debian.org>
---
 tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/dscr/dscr_inherit_exec_test.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/dscr/dscr_inherit_exec_test.c b/tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/dscr/dscr_inherit_exec_test.c
index 08a8b95e3bc1..638e0dc717d5 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/dscr/dscr_inherit_exec_test.c
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/dscr/dscr_inherit_exec_test.c
@@ -104,6 +104,6 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[])
 		exit(1);
 	}
 
-	strncpy(prog, argv[0], strlen(argv[0]));
+	strncpy(prog, argv[0], sizeof(prog) - 1);
 	return test_harness(dscr_inherit_exec, "dscr_inherit_exec_test");
 }
-- 
2.17.1



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