[PATCH] riscv: lib: Fix ZBB strnlen wrap-around regression on huge counts

shao.mingyin at zte.com.cn shao.mingyin at zte.com.cn
Thu Aug 27 23:51:52 PDT 2026


From: Shao Mingyin <shao.mingyin at zte.com.cn>

commit 5d588c684833 ("riscv: lib: Fix ZBB strnlen reading past count
boundary") computes the aligned scan boundary from the last valid byte
(s + count - 1).  When count is huge (e.g. SIZE_MAX, which FORTIFY
strcat/strlcat pass when the destination size is not known at compile
time), s + count wraps around and the aligned boundary lands before s.
The pre-loop guard "bgeu t0, t4, 2f" then always exits for aligned
strings of 8 or more characters, and strnlen() returns 8 instead of
the real length.

This silently truncates strings built by fortified strcat: the dm
sysfs name attribute shows "live-bas" instead of "live-base", the
truncated name pollutes the udev database, and blivet/anaconda (as
well as LVM/dm-crypt/multipath userspace) break on RISC-V systems.

Detect the wrap-around and saturate the boundary to the top of the
address space, making the scan equivalent to strlen().  Normal counts
are unaffected.

Fixes: 5d588c684833 ("riscv: lib: Fix ZBB strnlen reading past count boundary")
Signed-off-by: Shao Mingyin <shao.mingyin at zte.com.cn>
---
 arch/riscv/lib/strnlen.S | 10 ++++++++++
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/riscv/lib/strnlen.S b/arch/riscv/lib/strnlen.S
index a8911605c248..2451289ed0f9 100644
--- a/arch/riscv/lib/strnlen.S
+++ b/arch/riscv/lib/strnlen.S
@@ -87,9 +87,19 @@ strnlen_zbb:
 	 * Aligned boundary.  Use the address of the last valid byte
 	 * (s + count - 1) to avoid loading a word past the count
 	 * boundary in the loop below.  count == 0 is handled above.
+	 *
+	 * Saturate the boundary when s + count wraps around (very large
+	 * counts, e.g. SIZE_MAX passed by FORTIFY strcat/strlcat with a
+	 * destination whose size is unknown at compile time).  Without
+	 * this, the wrapped boundary lands before s and the pre-loop
+	 * guard below always exits, returning a truncated length.
+	 * Saturating makes the scan equivalent to strlen().
 	 */
 	add	t4, a0, a1
 	addi	t4, t4, -1
+	bgeu	t4, a0, 1f
+	li	t4, -1
+1:
 	andi	t4, t4, -SZREG

 	/* Get the first word.  */
-- 
2.27.0



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