Subject: Re: [iproute PATCH v3 2/7] xfrm_state: Make sure alg_name is NULL-terminated

From: Stephen Hemminger <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2017 17:28:20 -0700

On Mon, 21 Aug 2017 15:23:36 +0200
Phil Sutter <[email-masked]> wrote:

> Signed-off-by: Phil Sutter <[email-masked]>
> ---
>  ip/xfrm_state.c | 3 ++-
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/ip/xfrm_state.c b/ip/xfrm_state.c
> index e11c93bf1c3b5..7c0389038986e 100644
> --- a/ip/xfrm_state.c
> +++ b/ip/xfrm_state.c
> @@ -125,7 +125,8 @@ static int xfrm_algo_parse(struct xfrm_algo *alg, enum xfrm_attr_type_t type,
>  	fprintf(stderr, "warning: ALGO-NAME/ALGO-KEYMAT values will be sent to the kernel promiscuously! (verifying them isn't implemented yet)\n");
>  #endif
>  
> -	strncpy(alg->alg_name, name, sizeof(alg->alg_name));
> +	strncpy(alg->alg_name, name, sizeof(alg->alg_name) - 1);
> +	alg->alg_name[sizeof(alg->alg_name) - 1] = '\0';
>  
>  	if (slen > 2 && strncmp(key, "0x", 2) == 0) {
>  		/* split two chars "0x" from the top */

You are fixing enough of these null terminated string issues, that maybe
introducing strlcpy() would make sense. Either in utils (or -lbsd).