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* [PATCH next] drivers/bus/fsl-mc: Use strscpy() to copy strings into arrays
@ 2026-06-08  9:54 david.laight.linux
  2026-07-04  9:10 ` Christophe Leroy (CS GROUP)
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: david.laight.linux @ 2026-06-08  9:54 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Kees Cook, linux-hardening, linux-kernel, linuxppc-dev
  Cc: Arnd Bergmann, Ioana Ciornei, David Laight

From: David Laight <david.laight.linux@gmail.com>

Replacing strcpy() with strscpy() ensures than overflow of the target
buffer cannot happen.

Signed-off-by: David Laight <david.laight.linux@gmail.com>
---
This is one of a group of patches that remove potentially unbounded
strcpy() calls.

They are mostly replaced by strscpy() or, when strlen() has just been
called, with memcpy() (usually including the '\0').

Calls with copy string literals into arrays are left unchanged.
They are safe and easily detected as such.

The changes were made by getting the compiler to detect the calls and
then fixing the code by hand.

Note that all the changes are only compile tested.

Some Makefiles were changed to allow files to contain strcpy().
As well as 'difficult to fix' files, this included 'show' functions
as they really need to use sysfs_emit() or seq_printf().

All the patches are being sent individually to avoid very long cc lists.
Apologies for the terse commit messages and likely unexpected tags.
(There are about 100 patches in total.)

 drivers/bus/fsl-mc/fsl-mc-bus.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/bus/fsl-mc/fsl-mc-bus.c b/drivers/bus/fsl-mc/fsl-mc-bus.c
index 221146e4860b..372175fe169c 100644
--- a/drivers/bus/fsl-mc/fsl-mc-bus.c
+++ b/drivers/bus/fsl-mc/fsl-mc-bus.c
@@ -903,7 +903,7 @@ struct fsl_mc_device *fsl_mc_get_endpoint(struct fsl_mc_device *mc_dev,
 	int state, err;
 
 	mc_bus_dev = to_fsl_mc_device(mc_dev->dev.parent);
-	strcpy(endpoint1.type, mc_dev->obj_desc.type);
+	strscpy(endpoint1.type, mc_dev->obj_desc.type);
 	endpoint1.id = mc_dev->obj_desc.id;
 	endpoint1.if_id = if_id;
 
@@ -920,7 +920,7 @@ struct fsl_mc_device *fsl_mc_get_endpoint(struct fsl_mc_device *mc_dev,
 		return ERR_PTR(err);
 	}
 
-	strcpy(endpoint_desc.type, endpoint2.type);
+	strscpy(endpoint_desc.type, endpoint2.type);
 	endpoint_desc.id = endpoint2.id;
 	endpoint = fsl_mc_device_lookup(&endpoint_desc, mc_bus_dev);
 	if (endpoint)
-- 
2.39.5


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* Re: [PATCH next] drivers/bus/fsl-mc: Use strscpy() to copy strings into arrays
  2026-06-08  9:54 [PATCH next] drivers/bus/fsl-mc: Use strscpy() to copy strings into arrays david.laight.linux
@ 2026-07-04  9:10 ` Christophe Leroy (CS GROUP)
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Christophe Leroy (CS GROUP) @ 2026-07-04  9:10 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: david.laight.linux, Kees Cook, Ioana Ciornei
  Cc: Arnd Bergmann, linux-kernel, linux-hardening, linuxppc-dev



Le 08/06/2026 à 11:54, david.laight.linux@gmail.com a écrit :
> From: David Laight <david.laight.linux@gmail.com>
> 
> Replacing strcpy() with strscpy() ensures than overflow of the target
> buffer cannot happen.
> 
> Signed-off-by: David Laight <david.laight.linux@gmail.com>
> ---
> This is one of a group of patches that remove potentially unbounded
> strcpy() calls.
> 
> They are mostly replaced by strscpy() or, when strlen() has just been
> called, with memcpy() (usually including the '\0').
> 
> Calls with copy string literals into arrays are left unchanged.
> They are safe and easily detected as such.
> 
> The changes were made by getting the compiler to detect the calls and
> then fixing the code by hand.
> 
> Note that all the changes are only compile tested.
> 
> Some Makefiles were changed to allow files to contain strcpy().
> As well as 'difficult to fix' files, this included 'show' functions
> as they really need to use sysfs_emit() or seq_printf().
> 
> All the patches are being sent individually to avoid very long cc lists.
> Apologies for the terse commit messages and likely unexpected tags.
> (There are about 100 patches in total.)
> 
>   drivers/bus/fsl-mc/fsl-mc-bus.c | 4 ++--
>   1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

Do you expect this patch to go via individual trees or will you apply 
them all together in a given tree ?

Ioana, as usual I can take it via soc/fsl/ with your Ack.

Christophe

> 
> diff --git a/drivers/bus/fsl-mc/fsl-mc-bus.c b/drivers/bus/fsl-mc/fsl-mc-bus.c
> index 221146e4860b..372175fe169c 100644
> --- a/drivers/bus/fsl-mc/fsl-mc-bus.c
> +++ b/drivers/bus/fsl-mc/fsl-mc-bus.c
> @@ -903,7 +903,7 @@ struct fsl_mc_device *fsl_mc_get_endpoint(struct fsl_mc_device *mc_dev,
>   	int state, err;
>   
>   	mc_bus_dev = to_fsl_mc_device(mc_dev->dev.parent);
> -	strcpy(endpoint1.type, mc_dev->obj_desc.type);
> +	strscpy(endpoint1.type, mc_dev->obj_desc.type);
>   	endpoint1.id = mc_dev->obj_desc.id;
>   	endpoint1.if_id = if_id;
>   
> @@ -920,7 +920,7 @@ struct fsl_mc_device *fsl_mc_get_endpoint(struct fsl_mc_device *mc_dev,
>   		return ERR_PTR(err);
>   	}
>   
> -	strcpy(endpoint_desc.type, endpoint2.type);
> +	strscpy(endpoint_desc.type, endpoint2.type);
>   	endpoint_desc.id = endpoint2.id;
>   	endpoint = fsl_mc_device_lookup(&endpoint_desc, mc_bus_dev);
>   	if (endpoint)


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