From: Alexander Potapenko <gli...@google.com> Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2017 15:56:54 +0200
> KMSAN reported a use of uninitialized memory in dev_set_alias(), > which was caused by calling strlcpy() (which in turn called strlen()) > on the user-supplied non-terminated string. > > Signed-off-by: Alexander Potapenko <gli...@google.com> We should not be allowing non-NULL terminated strings for the IFLA_IFALIAS attribute. It's defined as type NLA_STRING in the ifla_policy[] array. Please figure out why we aren't enforcing the attribute policy properly, rather than adding a workaround. Thanks.
