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  • Kirill Smelkov
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  • net
  • core
  • dev.c
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  • Gal Pressman's avatar
    net: Fix undefined behavior in netdev name allocation · 674e3180
    Gal Pressman authored Nov 14, 2023
    Cited commit removed the strscpy() call and kept the snprintf() only.
    
    It is common to use 'dev->name' as the format string before a netdev is
    registered, this results in 'res' and 'name' pointers being equal.
    According to POSIX, if copying takes place between objects that overlap
    as a result of a call to sprintf() or snprintf(), the results are
    undefined.
    
    Add back the strscpy() and use 'buf' as an intermediate buffer.
    
    Fixes: 7ad17b04
    
     ("net: trust the bitmap in __dev_alloc_name()")
    Cc: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarVlad Buslov <vladbu@nvidia.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarGal Pressman <gal@nvidia.com>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarJakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarSimon Horman <horms@kernel.org>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarJiri Pirko <jiri@nvidia.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
    674e3180
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