From: Wolfram Sang <wsa@kernel.org>
To: Justin Stitt <justinstitt@google.com>
Cc: "Bence Csókás" <bence98@sch.bme.hu>,
"Andi Shyti" <andi.shyti@kernel.org>,
linux-i2c@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-hardening@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] i2c: cp2615: replace deprecated strncpy with strscpy
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2023 12:10:44 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZQ1oJB0Tiop3Z1Fv@shikoro> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230920-strncpy-drivers-i2c-busses-i2c-cp2615-c-v1-1-11406a996794@google.com>
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On Wed, Sep 20, 2023 at 08:08:52AM +0000, Justin Stitt wrote:
> `strncpy` is deprecated for use on NUL-terminated destination strings [1].
>
> We should prefer more robust and less ambiguous string interfaces.
>
> We expect name to be NUL-terminated based on its numerous uses with
> functions that expect NUL-terminated strings.
>
> For example in i2c-core-base.c +1533:
> | dev_dbg(&adap->dev, "adapter [%s] registered\n", adap->name);
>
> NUL-padding is not required as `adap` is already zero-alloacted with:
> | adap = devm_kzalloc(&usbif->dev, sizeof(struct i2c_adapter), GFP_KERNEL);
>
> With the above in mind, a suitable replacement is `strscpy` [2] due to
> the fact that it guarantees NUL-termination on the destination buffer
> without unnecessarily NUL-padding.
>
> Link: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/deprecated.html#strncpy-on-nul-terminated-strings [1]
> Link: https://manpages.debian.org/testing/linux-manual-4.8/strscpy.9.en.html [2]
> Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/90
> Cc: linux-hardening@vger.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Justin Stitt <justinstitt@google.com>
Applied to for-next, thanks!
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-09-20 8:08 [PATCH] i2c: cp2615: replace deprecated strncpy with strscpy Justin Stitt
2023-09-20 15:23 ` Kees Cook
2023-09-22 10:10 ` Wolfram Sang [this message]
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