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Andrey Ryabinin
1a3241ff10
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 <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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