[lttng-dev] [PATCH lttng-tools 11/24] Fix: illegal memory access in cmd_snapshot_record

Mathieu Desnoyers mathieu.desnoyers at efficios.com
Tue May 17 01:42:50 UTC 2016


Found by Coverity:
CID 1243027 (#1 of 1): Buffer not null terminated
(BUFFER_SIZE_WARNING)20. buffer_size_warning: Calling strncpy with a
maximum size argument of 255 bytes on destination array tmp_output.name
of size 255 bytes might leave the destination string unterminated.

Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers at efficios.com>
---
 src/bin/lttng-sessiond/cmd.c | 8 ++++++--
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/bin/lttng-sessiond/cmd.c b/src/bin/lttng-sessiond/cmd.c
index 23e7210..7f47818 100644
--- a/src/bin/lttng-sessiond/cmd.c
+++ b/src/bin/lttng-sessiond/cmd.c
@@ -3909,8 +3909,12 @@ int cmd_snapshot_record(struct ltt_session *session,
 
 			/* Use temporary name. */
 			if (*output->name != '\0') {
-				strncpy(tmp_output.name, output->name,
-						sizeof(tmp_output.name));
+				if (lttng_strncpy(tmp_output.name, output->name,
+						sizeof(tmp_output.name))) {
+					ret = LTTNG_ERR_INVALID;
+					rcu_read_unlock();
+					goto error;
+				}
 			}
 
 			tmp_output.nb_snapshot = session->snapshot.nb_snapshot;
-- 
2.1.4



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