lib/strncpy_from_user.c: Mask out bytes after NUL terminator.
do_strncpy_from_user() may copy some extra bytes after the NUL terminator into the destination buffer. This usually does not matter for normal string operations. However, when BPF programs key BPF maps with strings, this matters a lot. A BPF program may read strings from user memory by calling the bpf_probe_read_user_str() helper which eventually calls do_strncpy_from_user(). The program can then key a map with the destination buffer. BPF map keys are fixed-width and string-agnostic, meaning that map keys are treated as a set of bytes. The issue is when do_strncpy_from_user() overcopies bytes after the NUL terminator, it can result in seemingly identical strings occupying multiple slots in a BPF map. This behavior is subtle and totally unexpected by the user. This commit masks out the bytes following the NUL while preserving long-sized stride in the fast path. Fixes: 6ae08ae3 ("bpf: Add probe_read_{user, kernel} and probe_read_{user, ke...
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