[PATCH 09/18] string: implement strscpy

Ahmad Fatoum a.fatoum at pengutronix.de
Fri Nov 10 13:44:12 PST 2023


strscpy is meant to be a safer alternative to strscpy, which always
terminates the destination string and returns an error code if
truncation happens. To enable porting kernel code using it, import the
definition.

Signed-off-by: Ahmad Fatoum <a.fatoum at pengutronix.de>
---
 include/linux/string.h |  3 ++
 lib/string.c           | 71 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 74 insertions(+)

diff --git a/include/linux/string.h b/include/linux/string.h
index 75c8cf818b39..32ce56939699 100644
--- a/include/linux/string.h
+++ b/include/linux/string.h
@@ -46,6 +46,9 @@ extern char * strncpy(char *,const char *, __kernel_size_t);
 #ifndef __HAVE_ARCH_STRLCPY
 size_t strlcpy(char *, const char *, size_t);
 #endif
+#ifndef __HAVE_ARCH_STRSCPY
+ssize_t strscpy(char *, const char *, size_t);
+#endif
 #ifndef __HAVE_ARCH_STRCAT
 extern char * strcat(char *, const char *);
 #endif
diff --git a/lib/string.c b/lib/string.c
index 166ef190d6aa..bf0f0455ab3f 100644
--- a/lib/string.c
+++ b/lib/string.c
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@
 #include <linux/types.h>
 #include <string.h>
 #include <linux/ctype.h>
+#include <asm/word-at-a-time.h>
 #include <malloc.h>
 
 #ifndef __HAVE_ARCH_STRCASECMP
@@ -87,6 +88,76 @@ char * strcpy(char * dest,const char *src)
 #endif
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(strcpy);
 
+#ifndef __HAVE_ARCH_STRSCPY
+ssize_t strscpy(char *dest, const char *src, size_t count)
+{
+	const struct word_at_a_time constants = WORD_AT_A_TIME_CONSTANTS;
+	size_t max = count;
+	long res = 0;
+
+	if (count == 0 || WARN_ON_ONCE(count > INT_MAX))
+		return -E2BIG;
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS
+	/*
+	 * If src is unaligned, don't cross a page boundary,
+	 * since we don't know if the next page is mapped.
+	 */
+	if ((long)src & (sizeof(long) - 1)) {
+		size_t limit = PAGE_SIZE - ((long)src & (PAGE_SIZE - 1));
+		if (limit < max)
+			max = limit;
+	}
+#else
+	/* If src or dest is unaligned, don't do word-at-a-time. */
+	if (((long) dest | (long) src) & (sizeof(long) - 1))
+		max = 0;
+#endif
+
+	/*
+	 * read_word_at_a_time() below may read uninitialized bytes after the
+	 * trailing zero and use them in comparisons. Disable this optimization
+	 * under KMSAN to prevent false positive reports.
+	 */
+	if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_KMSAN))
+		max = 0;
+
+	while (max >= sizeof(unsigned long)) {
+		unsigned long c, data;
+
+		c = read_word_at_a_time(src+res);
+		if (has_zero(c, &data, &constants)) {
+			data = prep_zero_mask(c, data, &constants);
+			data = create_zero_mask(data);
+			*(unsigned long *)(dest+res) = c & zero_bytemask(data);
+			return res + find_zero(data);
+		}
+		*(unsigned long *)(dest+res) = c;
+		res += sizeof(unsigned long);
+		count -= sizeof(unsigned long);
+		max -= sizeof(unsigned long);
+	}
+
+	while (count) {
+		char c;
+
+		c = src[res];
+		dest[res] = c;
+		if (!c)
+			return res;
+		res++;
+		count--;
+	}
+
+	/* Hit buffer length without finding a NUL; force NUL-termination. */
+	if (res)
+		dest[res-1] = '\0';
+
+	return -E2BIG;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(strscpy);
+#endif
+
 /**
  * stpcpy - Copy a %NUL terminated string, but return pointer to %NUL
  * @dest: Where to copy the string to
-- 
2.39.2




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