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kdb: Fix buffer overflow during tab-complete

Currently, when the user attempts symbol completion with the Tab key, kdb will use strncpy() to insert the completed symbol into the command buffer. Unfortunately it passes the size of the source buffer rather than the destination to strncpy() with predictably horrible results. Most obviously if the command buffer is already full but cp, the cursor position, is in the middle of the buffer, then we will write past the end of the supplied buffer. Fix this by replacing the dubious strncpy() calls with memmove()/memcpy() calls plus explicit boundary checks to make sure we have enough space before we start moving characters around.

Daniel Thompson committed 2 years ago

Commit e9730741 parent 5b6d8ef1 file · +13 −8Browse files

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kernel/debug/kdb/kdb_io.c+13−8
@@ -367,14 +367,19 @@ poll_again: · 366 unmodified lines
367367 kdb_printf(kdb_prompt_str);
368368 kdb_printf("%s", buffer);
369369 } else if (tab != 2 && count > 0) {
370− len_tmp = strlen(p_tmp);
371− strncpy(p_tmp+len_tmp, cp, lastchar-cp+1);
372− len_tmp = strlen(p_tmp);
373− strncpy(cp, p_tmp+len, len_tmp-len + 1);
374− len = len_tmp - len;
375− kdb_printf("%s", cp);
376− cp += len;
377− lastchar += len;
370+ /* How many new characters do we want from tmpbuffer? */
371+ len_tmp = strlen(p_tmp) - len;
372+ if (lastchar + len_tmp >= bufend)
373+ len_tmp = bufend - lastchar;
374+
375+ if (len_tmp) {
376+ /* + 1 ensures the '\0' is memmove'd */
377+ memmove(cp+len_tmp, cp, (lastchar-cp) + 1);
378+ memcpy(cp, p_tmp+len, len_tmp);
379+ kdb_printf("%s", cp);
380+ cp += len_tmp;
381+ lastchar += len_tmp;
382+ }
378383 }
379384 kdb_nextline = 1; /* reset output line number */
380385 break;