linux-hardening - [PATCH] dm crypt: replace open-coded kmemdup

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Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2023 06:35:54 +0000
From: Justin Stitt <justinstitt@...gle.com>
To: Alasdair Kergon <agk@...hat.com>, Mike Snitzer <snitzer@...nel.org>, dm-devel@...hat.com
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-hardening@...r.kernel.org, 
	Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>, Justin Stitt <justinstitt@...gle.com>
Subject: [PATCH] dm crypt: replace open-coded kmemdup_nul

kzalloc() followed by strncpy() on an expected NUL-terminated string is
just kmemdup_nul(). Let's simplify this code (while also dropping a
deprecated strncpy() call [1]).

Link: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/deprecated.html#strncpy-on-nul-terminated-strings [1]
Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/90
Cc: linux-hardening@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
Signed-off-by: Justin Stitt <justinstitt@...gle.com>
---
Note: build-tested only.
Similar-to: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230925-strncpy-drivers-hwmon-acpi_power_meter-c-v4-1-3bac7534f10f@google.com/
---
 drivers/md/dm-crypt.c | 3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/md/dm-crypt.c b/drivers/md/dm-crypt.c
index f2662c21a6df..8a03b3590733 100644
--- a/drivers/md/dm-crypt.c
+++ b/drivers/md/dm-crypt.c
@@ -2858,10 +2858,9 @@ static int crypt_ctr_auth_cipher(struct crypt_config *cc, char *cipher_api)
 	if (!start || !end || ++start > end)
 		return -EINVAL;
 
-	mac_alg = kzalloc(end - start + 1, GFP_KERNEL);
+	mac_alg = kmemdup_nul(start, end - start, GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!mac_alg)
 		return -ENOMEM;
-	strncpy(mac_alg, start, end - start);
 
 	mac = crypto_alloc_ahash(mac_alg, 0, CRYPTO_ALG_ALLOCATES_MEMORY);
 	kfree(mac_alg);

---
base-commit: 6465e260f48790807eef06b583b38ca9789b6072
change-id: 20230925-strncpy-drivers-md-dm-crypt-c-da71d87b8cdc

Best regards,
--
Justin Stitt <justinstitt@...gle.com>