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authorBreno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>2026-04-27 17:30:37 +0300
committerJakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>2026-04-29 04:28:11 +0300
commit92ceb7bff62c2606f664c204750eca0b85d44112 (patch)
treeaa3b04733e17dc9c7fe6f20afcdcf539e37f892a
parente6dd94252b0fa7b4fcc00577c6898432c5d97a08 (diff)
downloadlinux-92ceb7bff62c2606f664c204750eca0b85d44112.tar.xz
netconsole: propagate device name truncation in dev_name_store()
dev_name_store() calls strscpy(nt->np.dev_name, buf, IFNAMSIZ) without checking the return value. If userspace writes an interface name longer than IFNAMSIZ - 1, strscpy() silently truncates and returns -E2BIG, but the function ignores it and reports a fully successful write back to userspace. If a real interface happens to match the truncated name, netconsole will bind to the wrong device on the next enable, sending kernel logs and panic output to an unintended network segment with no indication to userspace that anything was rewritten. Reject writes whose length cannot fit in nt->np.dev_name up front: if (count >= IFNAMSIZ) return -ENAMETOOLONG; This is not a big deal of a problem, but, it is still the correct approach. Fixes: 0bcc1816188e57 ("[NET] netconsole: Support dynamic reconfiguration using configfs") Signed-off-by: Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260427-netconsole_ai_fixes-v2-3-59965f29d9cc@debian.org Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/netconsole.c7
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/netconsole.c b/drivers/net/netconsole.c
index 595e09bd1ccf..b3b36e3ddd03 100644
--- a/drivers/net/netconsole.c
+++ b/drivers/net/netconsole.c
@@ -817,6 +817,13 @@ static ssize_t dev_name_store(struct config_item *item, const char *buf,
size_t count)
{
struct netconsole_target *nt = to_target(item);
+ size_t len = count;
+
+ /* Account for a trailing newline appended by tools like echo */
+ if (len && buf[len - 1] == '\n')
+ len--;
+ if (len >= IFNAMSIZ)
+ return -ENAMETOOLONG;
dynamic_netconsole_mutex_lock();
if (nt->state == STATE_ENABLED) {