tracing: Use strlcpy() instead of strcpy() in __trace_find_cmdline()
authorAmey Telawane <ameyt@codeaurora.org>
Wed, 3 May 2017 10:11:14 +0000 (15:41 +0530)
committerYves-Alexis Perez <corsac@debian.org>
Wed, 21 Feb 2018 15:29:03 +0000 (15:29 +0000)
Strcpy is inherently not safe, and strlcpy() should be used instead.
__trace_find_cmdline() uses strcpy() because the comms saved must have a
terminating nul character, but it doesn't hurt to add the extra protection
of using strlcpy() instead of strcpy().

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1493806274-13936-1-git-send-email-amit.pundir@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Amey Telawane <ameyt@codeaurora.org>
[AmitP: Cherry-picked this commit from CodeAurora kernel/msm-3.10
https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la/kernel/msm-3.10/commit/?id=2161ae9a70b12cf18ac8e5952a20161ffbccb477]
Signed-off-by: Amit Pundir <amit.pundir@linaro.org>
[ Updated change log and removed the "- 1" from len parameter ]
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Gbp-Pq: Topic bugfix/all
Gbp-Pq: Name tracing-Use-strlcpy-instead-of-strcpy-in-__trace_fin.patch

kernel/trace/trace.c

index 15b02645ce8bba0388f3aab004a1a2d3f747ebd0..3b6e1ea59b0b35380a9ae4491ee539ff559bac10 100644 (file)
@@ -1862,7 +1862,7 @@ static void __trace_find_cmdline(int pid, char comm[])
 
        map = savedcmd->map_pid_to_cmdline[pid];
        if (map != NO_CMDLINE_MAP)
-               strcpy(comm, get_saved_cmdlines(map));
+               strlcpy(comm, get_saved_cmdlines(map), TASK_COMM_LEN);
        else
                strcpy(comm, "<...>");
 }