From: Alexander Potapenko Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2017 13:56:54 +0000 (+0200) Subject: net: don't call strlen on non-terminated string in dev_set_alias() X-Git-Tag: v4.9.36~170 X-Git-Url: https://www.infradead.org/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=d2f459e3feb0f73d2e95ab7892adcf22f21fe9ef;p=users%2Fdwmw2%2Flinux.git net: don't call strlen on non-terminated string in dev_set_alias() [ Upstream commit c28294b941232931fbd714099798eb7aa7e865d7 ] KMSAN reported a use of uninitialized memory in dev_set_alias(), which was caused by calling strlcpy() (which in turn called strlen()) on the user-supplied non-terminated string. Signed-off-by: Alexander Potapenko Signed-off-by: David S. Miller Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c index 2e04fd1880816..97f806116ae90 100644 --- a/net/core/dev.c +++ b/net/core/dev.c @@ -1250,8 +1250,9 @@ int dev_set_alias(struct net_device *dev, const char *alias, size_t len) if (!new_ifalias) return -ENOMEM; dev->ifalias = new_ifalias; + memcpy(dev->ifalias, alias, len); + dev->ifalias[len] = 0; - strlcpy(dev->ifalias, alias, len+1); return len; }