strlcpy() reads the entire source buffer first. This read may exceed
the destination size limit. This is both inefficient and can lead
to linear read overflows if a source string is not NUL-terminated[1].
Additionally, it returns the size of the source string, not the
resulting size of the destination string. In an effort to remove strlcpy()
completely[2], replace strlcpy() here with strscpy().

Nothing actually checks the return value coming from kernfs_name_locked(),
so this has no impact on error paths. The caller hierarchy is:

kernfs_name_locked()
        kernfs_name()
                pr_cont_kernfs_name()
                        return value ignored
                cgroup_name()
                        current_css_set_cg_links_read()
                                return value ignored
                        print_page_owner_memcg()
                                return value ignored

Link: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/deprecated.html#strlcpy [1]
Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/89 [2]
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Azeem Shaikh <azeemshaikh38@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231116192127.1558276-2-keescook@chromium.org
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
---
 fs/kernfs/dir.c | 10 +++++-----
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/kernfs/dir.c b/fs/kernfs/dir.c
index 37353901ede1..8c0e5442597e 100644
--- a/fs/kernfs/dir.c
+++ b/fs/kernfs/dir.c
@@ -54,9 +54,9 @@ static bool kernfs_lockdep(struct kernfs_node *kn)
 static int kernfs_name_locked(struct kernfs_node *kn, char *buf, size_t buflen)
 {
 	if (!kn)
-		return strlcpy(buf, "(null)", buflen);
+		return strscpy(buf, "(null)", buflen);
 
-	return strlcpy(buf, kn->parent ? kn->name : "/", buflen);
+	return strscpy(buf, kn->parent ? kn->name : "/", buflen);
 }
 
 /* kernfs_node_depth - compute depth from @from to @to */
@@ -182,12 +182,12 @@ static int kernfs_path_from_node_locked(struct kernfs_node *kn_to,
  * @buflen: size of @buf
  *
  * Copies the name of @kn into @buf of @buflen bytes.  The behavior is
- * similar to strlcpy().
+ * similar to strscpy().
  *
  * Fills buffer with "(null)" if @kn is %NULL.
  *
- * Return: the length of @kn's name and if @buf isn't long enough,
- * it's filled up to @buflen-1 and nul terminated.
+ * Return: the resulting length of @buf. If @buf isn't long enough,
+ * it's filled up to @buflen-1 and nul terminated, and returns -E2BIG.
  *
  * This function can be called from any context.
  */
-- 
2.34.1

On Tue, Dec 12, 2023 at 01:17:39PM -0800, Kees Cook wrote:
> strlcpy() reads the entire source buffer first. This read may exceed
> the destination size limit. This is both inefficient and can lead
> to linear read overflows if a source string is not NUL-terminated[1].
> Additionally, it returns the size of the source string, not the
> resulting size of the destination string. In an effort to remove strlcpy()
> completely[2], replace strlcpy() here with strscpy().
> 
> Nothing actually checks the return value coming from kernfs_name_locked(),
> so this has no impact on error paths. The caller hierarchy is:
> 
> kernfs_name_locked()
>         kernfs_name()
>                 pr_cont_kernfs_name()
>                         return value ignored
>                 cgroup_name()
>                         current_css_set_cg_links_read()
>                                 return value ignored
>                         print_page_owner_memcg()
>                                 return value ignored
> 
> Link: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/deprecated.html#strlcpy [1]
> Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/89 [2]
> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
> Cc: Azeem Shaikh <azeemshaikh38@gmail.com>
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231116192127.1558276-2-keescook@chromium.org
> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>

Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>

Thanks.

-- 
tejun