[U-Boot] [PATCH 2/2] image: Protect against overflow in unknown_msg()

Tom Rini trini at konsulko.com
Wed Oct 26 23:49:01 CEST 2016


On Wed, Oct 26, 2016 at 01:19:12PM -0600, Simon Glass wrote:
> Coverity complains that this can overflow. If we later increase the size
> of one of the strings in the table, it could happen.
> 
> Adjust the code to protect against this.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>
> Reported-by: Coverity (CID: 150964)
> ---
> 
>  common/image.c | 3 ++-
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/common/image.c b/common/image.c
> index 0e86c13..dfd1779 100644
> --- a/common/image.c
> +++ b/common/image.c
> @@ -584,13 +584,14 @@ const table_entry_t *get_table_entry(const table_entry_t *table, int id)
>  	}
>  	return NULL;
>  }
> +#include <linux/string.h>
>  
>  static const char *unknown_msg(enum ih_category category)
>  {
>  	static char msg[30];
>  
>  	strcpy(msg, "Unknown ");
> -	strcat(msg, table_info[category].desc);
> +	strncat(msg, table_info[category].desc, sizeof(msg) - 1);
>  
>  	return msg;
>  }

We should add the include up top with the others :)

-- 
Tom
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