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[198.0.35.241]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id a21-20020a170902ee9500b001c5fc291ef9sm184216pld.209.2023.10.09.11.31.03 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Mon, 09 Oct 2023 11:31:03 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2023 11:31:00 -0700 From: Kees Cook To: Justin Stitt Cc: =?utf-8?B?QXLEsW7DpyDDnE5BTA==?= , Daniel Golle , Landen Chao , DENG Qingfang , Sean Wang , Andrew Lunn , Florian Fainelli , Vladimir Oltean , "David S. Miller" , Eric Dumazet , Jakub Kicinski , Paolo Abeni , Matthias Brugger , AngeloGioacchino Del Regno , netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-mediatek@lists.infradead.org, linux-hardening@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: dsa: mt7530: replace deprecated strncpy with ethtool_sprintf Message-ID: <202310091130.D951BA0A6@keescook> References: <20231009-strncpy-drivers-net-dsa-mt7530-c-v1-1-ec6677a6436a@google.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20231009-strncpy-drivers-net-dsa-mt7530-c-v1-1-ec6677a6436a@google.com> X-CRM114-Version: 20100106-BlameMichelson ( TRE 0.8.0 (BSD) ) MR-646709E3 X-CRM114-CacheID: sfid-20231009_113106_282931_8C591332 X-CRM114-Status: GOOD ( 11.27 ) X-BeenThere: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.34 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: "linux-arm-kernel" Errors-To: linux-arm-kernel-bounces+linux-arm-kernel=archiver.kernel.org@lists.infradead.org On Mon, Oct 09, 2023 at 06:29:19PM +0000, Justin Stitt wrote: > `strncpy` is deprecated for use on NUL-terminated destination strings > [1] and as such we should prefer more robust and less ambiguous string > interfaces. > > ethtool_sprintf() is designed specifically for get_strings() usage. > Let's replace strncpy in favor of this more robust and easier to > understand interface. > > 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 Looks correct to me. 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