From: Ian Bridges <icb@fastmail.org>
To: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@perex.cz>, Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.com>
Cc: linux-sound@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-hardening@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] ALSA: hda/generic: Replace strlcat() with strscpy()
Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2026 14:36:37 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alaPxW5S5PT_-kZi@dev> (raw)
In preparation for removing the strlcat() API[1], replace its two
uses in the generic parser.
Both call sites append one suffix to a string that the function has
already bounded to the buffer size. A strscpy() anchored at the
current end of the string writes the same bytes, including when the
suffix is truncated.
Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/370 [1]
Signed-off-by: Ian Bridges <icb@fastmail.org>
---
The patch was tested as follows.
- W=1 build of sound/hda/, zero warnings.
- A userspace differential harness compiled the old and the new
functions side by side. The buffers were byte identical over their
full length, including the bytes after the terminator.
- A QEMU runtime compare. A guest with an emulated HDA codec was
booted on the base and on the patched kernel, and the captured
/proc/asound state was byte identical. That covers the PCM stream
names from fill_pcm_stream_name() live.
sound/hda/codecs/generic.c | 8 ++++++--
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/sound/hda/codecs/generic.c b/sound/hda/codecs/generic.c
index 660a9f2c0ded..5f373cbf4a53 100644
--- a/sound/hda/codecs/generic.c
+++ b/sound/hda/codecs/generic.c
@@ -2712,10 +2712,12 @@ static void get_jack_mode_name(struct hda_codec *codec, hda_nid_t pin,
char *name, size_t name_len)
{
struct hda_gen_spec *spec = codec->spec;
+ size_t used;
int idx = 0;
snd_hda_get_pin_label(codec, pin, &spec->autocfg, name, name_len, &idx);
- strlcat(name, " Jack Mode", name_len);
+ used = strnlen(name, name_len);
+ strscpy(name + used, " Jack Mode", name_len - used);
for (; find_kctl_name(codec, name, idx); idx++)
;
@@ -5682,6 +5684,7 @@ static const struct hda_pcm_stream dyn_adc_pcm_analog_capture = {
static void fill_pcm_stream_name(char *str, size_t len, const char *sfx,
const char *chip_name)
{
+ size_t used;
char *p;
if (*str)
@@ -5695,7 +5698,8 @@ static void fill_pcm_stream_name(char *str, size_t len, const char *sfx,
break;
}
}
- strlcat(str, sfx, len);
+ used = strnlen(str, len);
+ strscpy(str + used, sfx, len - used);
}
/* copy PCM stream info from @default_str, and override non-NULL entries
--
2.47.3
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2026-07-14 19:36 Ian Bridges [this message]
2026-07-15 7:54 ` [PATCH] ALSA: hda/generic: Replace strlcat() with strscpy() Takashi Iwai
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