From: Mykyta Yatsenko <mykyta.yatsenko5@gmail.com>
To: akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
rostedt@goodmis.org, mhiramat@kernel.org, andrii@kernel.org,
kernel-team@meta.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Mykyta Yatsenko <yatsenko@meta.com>
Subject: [PATCH v2] maccess: fix strncpy_from_user_nofault empty string handling
Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2025 14:14:49 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250422131449.57177-1-mykyta.yatsenko5@gmail.com> (raw)
From: Mykyta Yatsenko <yatsenko@meta.com>
strncpy_from_user_nofault should return the length of the copied string
including the trailing NUL, but if the argument unsafe_addr points to
an empty string ({'\0'}), the return value is 0.
This happens as strncpy_from_user copies terminal symbol into dst
and returns 0 (as expected), but strncpy_from_user_nofault does not
modify ret as it is not equal to count and not greater than 0, so 0 is
returned, which contradicts the contract.
Signed-off-by: Mykyta Yatsenko <yatsenko@meta.com>
---
mm/maccess.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/mm/maccess.c b/mm/maccess.c
index 8f0906180a94..831b4dd7296c 100644
--- a/mm/maccess.c
+++ b/mm/maccess.c
@@ -196,7 +196,7 @@ long strncpy_from_user_nofault(char *dst, const void __user *unsafe_addr,
if (ret >= count) {
ret = count;
dst[ret - 1] = '\0';
- } else if (ret > 0) {
+ } else if (ret >= 0) {
ret++;
}
--
2.49.0
next reply other threads:[~2025-04-22 13:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-04-22 13:14 Mykyta Yatsenko [this message]
2025-04-22 15:48 ` Andrii Nakryiko
2025-04-23 0:20 ` Andrew Morton
2025-04-23 11:37 ` Mykyta Yatsenko
2025-04-23 13:59 ` Steven Rostedt
2025-04-23 14:48 ` Mykyta Yatsenko
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