Patch "qlge: Avoid reading past end of buffer" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

qlge: Avoid reading past end of buffer

to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
qlge-avoid-reading-past-end-of-buffer.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.

From: Kees Cook <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 5 May 2017 15:34:34 -0700
Subject: qlge: Avoid reading past end of buffer

From: Kees Cook <[email protected]>

[ Upstream commit df5303a8aa9a0a6934f4cea7427f1edf771f21c2 ]

Using memcpy() from a string that is shorter than the length copied means the destination buffer is being filled with arbitrary data from the kernel rodata segment. Instead, use strncpy() which will fill the trailing bytes with zeros.

This was found with the future CONFIG_FORTIFY_SOURCE feature.

---
 drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qlge/qlge_dbg.c |    4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

@@ -765,7 +765,7 @@ int ql_core_dump(struct ql_adapter *qdev
 		sizeof(struct mpi_coredump_global_header);
 	mpi_coredump->mpi_global_header.imageSize =
 		sizeof(struct ql_mpi_coredump);
-	memcpy(mpi_coredump->mpi_global_header.idString, "MPI Coredump",
+	strncpy(mpi_coredump->mpi_global_header.idString, "MPI Coredump",
 		sizeof(mpi_coredump->mpi_global_header.idString));
 
 	/* Get generic NIC reg dump */

@@ -1255,7 +1255,7 @@ static void ql_gen_reg_dump(struct ql_ad
 		sizeof(struct mpi_coredump_global_header);
 	mpi_coredump->mpi_global_header.imageSize =
 		sizeof(struct ql_reg_dump);
-	memcpy(mpi_coredump->mpi_global_header.idString, "MPI Coredump",
+	strncpy(mpi_coredump->mpi_global_header.idString, "MPI Coredump",
 		sizeof(mpi_coredump->mpi_global_header.idString));
 
 

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-4.4/qlge-avoid-reading-past-end-of-buffer.patch queue-4.4/pidns-disable-pid-allocation-if-pid_ns_prepare_proc-is-failed-in-alloc_pid.patch queue-4.4/ray_cs-avoid-reading-past-end-of-buffer.patch queue-4.4/bna-avoid-reading-past-end-of-buffer.patch