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

Simon Glass sjg at chromium.org
Fri Oct 28 03:51:57 CEST 2016


Hi Tom,

On 26 October 2016 at 14:49, Tom Rini <trini at konsulko.com> wrote:
> 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 :)

Ooops I left that in. It is not needed.

Regards,
Simon


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