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<title>lib/string: Add strscpy_pad() function</title>
<updated>2021-02-23T12:59:14Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Tobin C. Harding</name>
<email>tobin@kernel.org</email>
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<published>2019-04-05T01:58:58Z</published>
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[ Upstream commit 458a3bf82df4fe1f951d0f52b1e0c1e9d5a88a3b ]

We have a function to copy strings safely and we have a function to copy
strings and zero the tail of the destination (if source string is
shorter than destination buffer) but we do not have a function to do
both at once.  This means developers must write this themselves if they
desire this functionality.  This is a chore, and also leaves us open to
off by one errors unnecessarily.

Add a function that calls strscpy() then memset()s the tail to zero if
the source string is shorter than the destination buffer.

Acked-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tobin C. Harding &lt;tobin@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Shuah Khan &lt;shuah@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>lib/string.c: implement stpcpy</title>
<updated>2020-10-01T18:40:19Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Nick Desaulniers</name>
<email>ndesaulniers@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-09-26T04:19:18Z</published>
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commit 1e1b6d63d6340764e00356873e5794225a2a03ea upstream.

LLVM implemented a recent "libcall optimization" that lowers calls to
`sprintf(dest, "%s", str)` where the return value is used to
`stpcpy(dest, str) - dest`.

This generally avoids the machinery involved in parsing format strings.
`stpcpy` is just like `strcpy` except it returns the pointer to the new
tail of `dest`.  This optimization was introduced into clang-12.

Implement this so that we don't observe linkage failures due to missing
symbol definitions for `stpcpy`.

Similar to last year's fire drill with: commit 5f074f3e192f
("lib/string.c: implement a basic bcmp")

The kernel is somewhere between a "freestanding" environment (no full
libc) and "hosted" environment (many symbols from libc exist with the
same type, function signature, and semantics).

As Peter Anvin notes, there's not really a great way to inform the
compiler that you're targeting a freestanding environment but would like
to opt-in to some libcall optimizations (see pr/47280 below), rather
than opt-out.

Arvind notes, -fno-builtin-* behaves slightly differently between GCC
and Clang, and Clang is missing many __builtin_* definitions, which I
consider a bug in Clang and am working on fixing.

Masahiro summarizes the subtle distinction between compilers justly:
  To prevent transformation from foo() into bar(), there are two ways in
  Clang to do that; -fno-builtin-foo, and -fno-builtin-bar.  There is
  only one in GCC; -fno-buitin-foo.

(Any difference in that behavior in Clang is likely a bug from a missing
__builtin_* definition.)

Masahiro also notes:
  We want to disable optimization from foo() to bar(),
  but we may still benefit from the optimization from
  foo() into something else. If GCC implements the same transform, we
  would run into a problem because it is not -fno-builtin-bar, but
  -fno-builtin-foo that disables that optimization.

  In this regard, -fno-builtin-foo would be more future-proof than
  -fno-built-bar, but -fno-builtin-foo is still potentially overkill. We
  may want to prevent calls from foo() being optimized into calls to
  bar(), but we still may want other optimization on calls to foo().

It seems that compilers today don't quite provide the fine grain control
over which libcall optimizations pseudo-freestanding environments would
prefer.

Finally, Kees notes that this interface is unsafe, so we should not
encourage its use.  As such, I've removed the declaration from any
header, but it still needs to be exported to avoid linkage errors in
modules.

Reported-by: Sami Tolvanen &lt;samitolvanen@google.com&gt;
Suggested-by: Andy Lavr &lt;andy.lavr@gmail.com&gt;
Suggested-by: Arvind Sankar &lt;nivedita@alum.mit.edu&gt;
Suggested-by: Joe Perches &lt;joe@perches.com&gt;
Suggested-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Suggested-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
Suggested-by: Rasmus Villemoes &lt;linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Nick Desaulniers &lt;ndesaulniers@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Tested-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;natechancellor@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200914161643.938408-1-ndesaulniers@google.com
Link: https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47162
Link: https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47280
Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/1126
Link: https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man3/stpcpy.3.html
Link: https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/stpcpy.html
Link: https://reviews.llvm.org/D85963
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<title>lib/strscpy: Shut up KASAN false-positives in strscpy()</title>
<updated>2019-08-04T07:33:32Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Andrey Ryabinin</name>
<email>aryabinin@virtuozzo.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-02-01T18:00:50Z</published>
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[ Upstream commit 1a3241ff10d038ecd096d03380327f2a0b5840a6 ]

strscpy() performs the word-at-a-time optimistic reads.  So it may may
access the memory past the end of the object, which is perfectly fine
since strscpy() doesn't use that (past-the-end) data and makes sure the
optimistic read won't cross a page boundary.

Use new read_word_at_a_time() to shut up the KASAN.

Note that this potentially could hide some bugs.  In example bellow,
stscpy() will copy more than we should (1-3 extra uninitialized bytes):

        char dst[8];
        char *src;

        src = kmalloc(5, GFP_KERNEL);
        memset(src, 0xff, 5);
        strscpy(dst, src, 8);

Signed-off-by: Andrey Ryabinin &lt;aryabinin@virtuozzo.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<title>lib/string.c: implement a basic bcmp</title>
<updated>2019-04-17T06:36:39Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Nick Desaulniers</name>
<email>ndesaulniers@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-04-06T01:38:45Z</published>
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[ Upstream commit 5f074f3e192f10c9fade898b9b3b8812e3d83342 ]

A recent optimization in Clang (r355672) lowers comparisons of the
return value of memcmp against zero to comparisons of the return value
of bcmp against zero.  This helps some platforms that implement bcmp
more efficiently than memcmp.  glibc simply aliases bcmp to memcmp, but
an optimized implementation is in the works.

This results in linkage failures for all targets with Clang due to the
undefined symbol.  For now, just implement bcmp as a tailcail to memcmp
to unbreak the build.  This routine can be further optimized in the
future.

Other ideas discussed:

 * A weak alias was discussed, but breaks for architectures that define
   their own implementations of memcmp since aliases to declarations are
   not permitted (only definitions). Arch-specific memcmp
   implementations typically declare memcmp in C headers, but implement
   them in assembly.

 * -ffreestanding also is used sporadically throughout the kernel.

 * -fno-builtin-bcmp doesn't work when doing LTO.

Link: https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41035
Link: https://code.woboq.org/userspace/glibc/string/memcmp.c.html#bcmp
Link: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/commit/8e16d73346f8091461319a7dfc4ddd18eedcff13
Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/416
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190313211335.165605-1-ndesaulniers@google.com
Signed-off-by: Nick Desaulniers &lt;ndesaulniers@google.com&gt;
Reported-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;natechancellor@gmail.com&gt;
Reported-by: Adhemerval Zanella &lt;adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org&gt;
Suggested-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Suggested-by: James Y Knight &lt;jyknight@google.com&gt;
Suggested-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;yamada.masahiro@socionext.com&gt;
Suggested-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;natechancellor@gmail.com&gt;
Suggested-by: Rasmus Villemoes &lt;linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk&gt;
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;natechancellor@gmail.com&gt;
Tested-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;natechancellor@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;yamada.masahiro@socionext.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko &lt;andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: David Laight &lt;David.Laight@ACULAB.COM&gt;
Cc: Rasmus Villemoes &lt;linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk&gt;
Cc: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Cc: Alexander Shishkin &lt;alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<title>lib: move strtobool() to kstrtobool()</title>
<updated>2016-03-17T22:09:34Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Kees Cook</name>
<email>keescook@chromium.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-03-17T21:22:50Z</published>
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Create the kstrtobool_from_user() helper and move strtobool() logic into
the new kstrtobool() (matching all the other kstrto* functions).
Provides an inline wrapper for existing strtobool() callers.

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Joe Perches &lt;joe@perches.com&gt;
Cc: Andy Shevchenko &lt;andy.shevchenko@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Rasmus Villemoes &lt;linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk&gt;
Cc: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
Cc: Amitkumar Karwar &lt;akarwar@marvell.com&gt;
Cc: Nishant Sarmukadam &lt;nishants@marvell.com&gt;
Cc: Kalle Valo &lt;kvalo@codeaurora.org&gt;
Cc: Steve French &lt;sfrench@samba.org&gt;
Cc: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Cc: Heiko Carstens &lt;heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<title>lib/string: introduce match_string() helper</title>
<updated>2016-03-17T22:09:34Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Andy Shevchenko</name>
<email>andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-03-17T21:22:14Z</published>
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Occasionally we have to search for an occurrence of a string in an array
of strings.  Make a simple helper for that purpose.

Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko &lt;andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: "David S. Miller" &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz &lt;b.zolnierkie@samsung.com&gt;
Cc: David Airlie &lt;airlied@linux.ie&gt;
Cc: David Woodhouse &lt;dwmw2@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov &lt;dbaryshkov@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Cc: Heikki Krogerus &lt;heikki.krogerus@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Walleij &lt;linus.walleij@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Mika Westerberg &lt;mika.westerberg@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Sebastian Reichel &lt;sre@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Rasmus Villemoes &lt;linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<title>lib/string.c: add ULL suffix to the constant definition</title>
<updated>2015-11-11T00:32:11Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Andy Shevchenko</name>
<email>andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-11-10T22:45:14Z</published>
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8-byte constant is too big for long and compiler complains about this.

  lib/string.c:907:20: warning: constant 0x0101010101010101 is so big it is long

Append ULL suffix to explicitly show its type.

Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko &lt;andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>strscpy: zero any trailing garbage bytes in the destination</title>
<updated>2015-10-06T18:53:18Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Chris Metcalf</name>
<email>cmetcalf@ezchip.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-10-06T16:37:41Z</published>
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It's possible that the destination can be shadowed in userspace
(as, for example, the perf buffers are now).  So we should take
care not to leak data that could be inspected by userspace.

Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf &lt;cmetcalf@ezchip.com&gt;
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<title>string: provide strscpy()</title>
<updated>2015-09-10T19:36:59Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Chris Metcalf</name>
<email>cmetcalf@ezchip.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-04-29T16:52:04Z</published>
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The strscpy() API is intended to be used instead of strlcpy(),
and instead of most uses of strncpy().

- Unlike strlcpy(), it doesn't read from memory beyond (src + size).

- Unlike strlcpy() or strncpy(), the API provides an easy way to check
  for destination buffer overflow: an -E2BIG error return value.

- The provided implementation is robust in the face of the source
  buffer being asynchronously changed during the copy, unlike the
  current implementation of strlcpy().

- Unlike strncpy(), the destination buffer will be NUL-terminated
  if the string in the source buffer is too long.

- Also unlike strncpy(), the destination buffer will not be updated
  beyond the NUL termination, avoiding strncpy's behavior of zeroing
  the entire tail end of the destination buffer.  (A memset() after
  the strscpy() can be used if this behavior is desired.)

- The implementation should be reasonably performant on all
  platforms since it uses the asm/word-at-a-time.h API rather than
  simple byte copy.  Kernel-to-kernel string copy is not considered
  to be performance critical in any case.

Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf &lt;cmetcalf@ezchip.com&gt;
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<title>lib/string.c: introduce strreplace()</title>
<updated>2015-06-26T00:00:40Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Rasmus Villemoes</name>
<email>linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk</email>
</author>
<published>2015-06-25T22:02:22Z</published>
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Strings are sometimes sanitized by replacing a certain character (often
'/') by another (often '!').  In a few places, this is done the same way
Schlemiel the Painter would do it.  Others are slightly smarter but still
do multiple strchr() calls.  Introduce strreplace() to do this using a
single function call and a single pass over the string.

One would expect the return value to be one of three things: void, s, or
the number of replacements made.  I chose the fourth, returning a pointer
to the end of the string.  This is more likely to be useful (for example
allowing the caller to avoid a strlen call).

Signed-off-by: Rasmus Villemoes &lt;linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk&gt;
Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Cc: Neil Brown &lt;neilb@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Cc: Joe Perches &lt;joe@perches.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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