kernel: make exec clear errstr, stop side-channels and truncate on utf8 boundary

make exec() clear the per process error string
to avoid spurious errors and confusion.

the errstr() syscall used to always swap the
maximum buffer size with memmove(), which is
problematic as this gives access to the garbage
beyond the NUL byte. worse, newproc(), werrstr()
and rerrstr() only clear the first byte of the
input buffer. so random stack rubble could be
leaked across processes.

we change the errstr() syscall to not copy
beyond the NUL byte.

the manpage also documents that errstr() should
truncate on a utf8 boundary so we use utfecpy()
to ensure proper NUL termination.

1 files changed, 14 insertions, 10 deletions

diff --git a/sys/src/9/port/sysproc.c b/sys/src/9/port/sysproc.c
index 5361429c4..7625b946c 100644
--- a/sys/src/9/port/sysproc.c
+++ b/sys/src/9/port/sysproc.c
@@ -572,6 +572,9 @@ sysexec(va_list list)
 	procsetup(up);
 	qunlock(&up->debug);
 
+	up->errbuf0[0] = '\0';
+	up->errbuf1[0] = '\0';
+
 	/*
 	 *  At this point, the mmu contains info about the old address
 	 *  space and needs to be flushed
@@ -698,20 +701,21 @@ werrstr(char *fmt, ...)
 static int
 generrstr(char *buf, uint nbuf)
 {
-	char tmp[ERRMAX];
+	char *err;
 
 	if(nbuf == 0)
 		error(Ebadarg);
+	if(nbuf > ERRMAX)
+		nbuf = ERRMAX;
 	validaddr((uintptr)buf, nbuf, 1);
-	if(nbuf > sizeof tmp)
-		nbuf = sizeof tmp;
-	memmove(tmp, buf, nbuf);
-
-	/* make sure it's NUL-terminated */
-	tmp[nbuf-1] = '\0';
-	memmove(buf, up->syserrstr, nbuf);
-	buf[nbuf-1] = '\0';
-	memmove(up->syserrstr, tmp, nbuf);
+
+	err = up->errstr;
+	utfecpy(err, err+nbuf, buf);
+	utfecpy(buf, buf+nbuf, up->syserrstr);
+
+	up->errstr = up->syserrstr;
+	up->syserrstr = err;
+	
 	return 0;
 }