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From: Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@intel.com>
To: netdev@vger.kernel.org, David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Cc: Justin Stitt <justinstitt@google.com>,
	linux-hardening@vger.kernel.org,
	Pucha Himasekhar Reddy <himasekharx.reddy.pucha@intel.com>,
	Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@intel.com>
Subject: [PATCH net-next 9/9] igc: replace deprecated strncpy with strscpy
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2023 12:04:11 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20231017190411.2199743-10-jacob.e.keller@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20231017190411.2199743-1-jacob.e.keller@intel.com>

From: Justin Stitt <justinstitt@google.com>

`strncpy` is deprecated for use on NUL-terminated destination strings
[1] and as such we should prefer more robust and less ambiguous string
interfaces.

We expect netdev->name to be NUL-terminated based on its use with format
strings:
|       if (q_vector->rx.ring && q_vector->tx.ring)
|               sprintf(q_vector->name, "%s-TxRx-%u", netdev->name,

Furthermore, we do not need NUL-padding as netdev is already
zero-allocated:
|       netdev = alloc_etherdev_mq(sizeof(struct igc_adapter),
|                                  IGC_MAX_TX_QUEUES);
...
alloc_etherdev() -> alloc_etherdev_mq() -> alloc_etherdev_mqs() ->
alloc_netdev_mqs() ...
|       p = kvzalloc(alloc_size, GFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT | __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL);

Considering the above, 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>
Tested-by: Pucha Himasekhar Reddy <himasekharx.reddy.pucha@intel.com> (A Contingent worker at Intel)
Signed-off-by: Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@intel.com>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igc/igc_main.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igc/igc_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igc/igc_main.c
index 98de34d0ce07..e9bb403bbacf 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igc/igc_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igc/igc_main.c
@@ -6935,7 +6935,7 @@ static int igc_probe(struct pci_dev *pdev,
 	 */
 	igc_get_hw_control(adapter);
 
-	strncpy(netdev->name, "eth%d", IFNAMSIZ);
+	strscpy(netdev->name, "eth%d", sizeof(netdev->name));
 	err = register_netdev(netdev);
 	if (err)
 		goto err_register;
-- 
2.41.0


      parent reply	other threads:[~2023-10-17 19:04 UTC|newest]

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     [not found] <20231017190411.2199743-1-jacob.e.keller@intel.com>
2023-10-17 19:04 ` [PATCH net-next 3/9] e100: replace deprecated strncpy with strscpy Jacob Keller
2023-10-17 19:04 ` [PATCH net-next 4/9] e1000: " Jacob Keller
2023-10-17 19:04 ` [PATCH net-next 5/9] fm10k: " Jacob Keller
2023-10-17 19:04 ` [PATCH net-next 6/9] i40e: use scnprintf over strncpy+strncat Jacob Keller
2023-10-17 19:04 ` [PATCH net-next 7/9] igb: replace deprecated strncpy with strscpy Jacob Keller
2023-10-17 19:04 ` [PATCH net-next 8/9] igbvf: " Jacob Keller
2023-10-17 19:04 ` Jacob Keller [this message]

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