[U-Boot] A minor question on a Driver Model function

[Bill Pringlemeir]

>>> On 12 September 2014 05:25, Masahiro Yamada
>>> <yamada.m at jp.panasonic.com> wrote:
>>
>>>>>>> I have a qustion about lists_driver_lookup_name() function.

>>>>> On 09/14/14 21:28, Simon Glass wrote:
>>
>>>>> I would suggest still using strncmp as it is safer,
>>>>> but count also the '\0', so something like:
>>
>> On 17 Sep 2014, grinberg at compulab.co.il wrote:
>>
>>>> Why safer?
>>
>>>> Could you give me more detailed explanation?
>>
>>> On 09/17/14 11:18, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
>>
>>> Well, I'm not an expert in s/w security, but I'll try to explain...
>>
>> [snip]
>>
>>> But, again, I'm not an expert in this area, so its only a
>>> suggestion.
>>

> On 09/17/14 18:25, Bill Pringlemeir wrote:

>> I thought it was fairly apparent that the current code supports
>> passing a string that is *NOT* null terminated.  This can be
>> convenient if you extract a sub-string from a command line and do not
>> need to make a copy that is NULL terminate or perform 'strtok()' type
>> magic.

On 18 Sep 2014, grinberg at compulab.co.il wrote:

> Here is the whole function:
>
> ------------------------------cut--------------------------
> struct driver *lists_driver_lookup_name(const char *name)
> {
> struct driver *drv =
> ll_entry_start(struct driver, driver);
> const int n_ents = ll_entry_count(struct driver, driver);
> struct driver *entry;
> int len;
>
> if (!drv || !n_ents)
> return NULL;
>
> len = strlen(name);
>
> for (entry = drv; entry != drv + n_ents; entry++) {
> if (strncmp(name, entry->name, len))
> continue;
>
> /* Full match */
> if (len == strlen(entry->name))
> return entry;
>>
>
> /* Not found */
> return NULL;
>>
> ------------------------------cut--------------------------
>
> and... no, the code does not support passing a string that is
> not null terminated.

Then using the strncmp() seems useless for security reasons?  The 'len'
is not passed in by the caller and 'strlen()' will have the same
problems that 'strcmp()' would for read buffer overflows?  I would guess
the code was cribbed from where 'len' was passed?  In that case, it
would support strings that are not null terminated.

Sorry, I didn't look and understand your query now.

Fwiw,
Bill Pringlemeir.