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Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2019 08:50:40 -0700
From: Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To: David Laight <David.Laight@...LAB.COM>, 'Rasmus Villemoes'
<linux@...musvillemoes.dk>, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Chris
Metcalf <cmetcalf@...hip.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>, Stephen Kitt <steve@....org>, Kees
Cook <keescook@...omium.org>, Nitin Gote <nitin.r.gote@...el.com>,
"jannh@...gle.com" <jannh@...gle.com>,
"kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com"
<kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com>, Andrew Morton
<akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] string: Add stracpy and stracpy_pad mechanisms
(adding Chris Metcalf)
On Tue, 2019-07-23 at 15:41 +0000, David Laight wrote:
> From: Rasmus Villemoes
> > Sent: 23 July 2019 07:56
> ...
> > > +/**
> > > + * stracpy - Copy a C-string into an array of char
> > > + * @to: Where to copy the string, must be an array of char and not a pointer
> > > + * @from: String to copy, may be a pointer or const char array
> > > + *
> > > + * Helper for strscpy.
> > > + * Copies a maximum of sizeof(@to) bytes of @from with %NUL termination.
> > > + *
> > > + * Returns:
> > > + * * The number of characters copied (not including the trailing %NUL)
> > > + * * -E2BIG if @to is a zero size array.
> >
> > Well, yes, but more importantly and generally: -E2BIG if the copy
> > including %NUL didn't fit. [The zero size array thing could be made into
> > a build bug for these stra* variants if one thinks that might actually
> > occur in real code.]
>
> Probably better is to return the size of the destination if the copy didn't fit
> (zero if the buffer is zero length).
> This allows code to do repeated:
> offset += str*cpy(buf + offset, src, sizeof buf - offset);
> and do a final check for overflow after all the copies.
>
> The same is true for a snprintf()like function
Chris? You added this function.
Do you have an opinion here?
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