Subject: Re: [iproute PATCH v2 4/7] lib/inet_proto: Make sure destination buffers are NULL-terminated

From: Stephen Hemminger <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2017 09:37:33 -0700

On Thu, 17 Aug 2017 19:09:29 +0200
Phil Sutter <[email-masked]> wrote:

> Signed-off-by: Phil Sutter <[email-masked]>
> ---
>  lib/inet_proto.c | 9 ++++++---
>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/lib/inet_proto.c b/lib/inet_proto.c
> index ceda082b12a2e..87ed4769fc3da 100644
> --- a/lib/inet_proto.c
> +++ b/lib/inet_proto.c
> @@ -35,8 +35,10 @@ const char *inet_proto_n2a(int proto, char *buf, int len)
>  	pe = getprotobynumber(proto);
>  	if (pe) {
>  		icache = proto;
> -		strncpy(ncache, pe->p_name, 16);
> -		strncpy(buf, pe->p_name, len);
> +		strncpy(ncache, pe->p_name, 15);
> +		ncache[15] = '\0';
> +		strncpy(buf, pe->p_name, len - 1);
> +		buf[len] = '\0';
>  		return buf;
>  	}
>  	snprintf(buf, len, "ipproto-%d", proto);
> @@ -62,7 +64,8 @@ int inet_proto_a2n(const char *buf)
>  	pe = getprotobyname(buf);
>  	if (pe) {
>  		icache = pe->p_proto;
> -		strncpy(ncache, pe->p_name, 16);
> +		strncpy(ncache, pe->p_name, 15);
> +		ncache[15] = '\0';
>  		return pe->p_proto;
>  	}
>  	return -1;

Depending on proto name to be 15 characters or less is a silly
choice. Why not use strdup() and do it right?