[U-Boot] [PATCH v3] sandbox: Use memmove() to move overlapping regions

Simon Glass sjg at chromium.org
Tue Nov 13 22:55:20 UTC 2018


The use of strcpy() to remove characters at the start of a string is safe
in U-Boot, since we know the implementation. But in os.c we are using the
C library's strcpy() function, where this behaviour is not permitted.

Update the code to use memmove() instead.

Reported-by: Coverity (CID: 173279)
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>
---

Changes in v3:
- Fix commit message to say memmove() instead of memcpy()

Changes in v2:
- Also remove the leading / from the "/spl" path
- Correct the string calculation

 arch/sandbox/cpu/os.c | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/sandbox/cpu/os.c b/arch/sandbox/cpu/os.c
index 07e46471fe5..04669bfc177 100644
--- a/arch/sandbox/cpu/os.c
+++ b/arch/sandbox/cpu/os.c
@@ -641,9 +641,10 @@ int os_find_u_boot(char *fname, int maxlen)
 	}
 
 	/* Look for 'u-boot' in the parent directory of spl/ */
-	p = strstr(fname, "/spl/");
+	p = strstr(fname, "spl/");
 	if (p) {
-		strcpy(p, p + 4);
+		/* Remove the "spl" characters */
+		memmove(p, p + 4, strlen(p + 4) + 1);
 		fd = os_open(fname, O_RDONLY);
 		if (fd >= 0) {
 			close(fd);
-- 
2.19.1.930.g4563a0d9d0-goog



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