From: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
To: Justin Stitt <justinstitt@google.com>
Cc: Geoff Levand <geoff@infradead.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>,
linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-hardening@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] powerpc/ps3: refactor strncpy usage
Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2023 20:06:29 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <202308162006.497A819DC@keescook> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230816-strncpy-arch-powerpc-platforms-ps3-repository-v1-1-88283b02fb09@google.com>
On Wed, Aug 16, 2023 at 09:39:24PM +0000, Justin Stitt wrote:
> `strncpy` is deprecated for use on NUL-terminated destination strings [1].
>
> `make_first_field()` should use similar implementation to `make_field()`
> due to memcpy having more obvious behavior here. The end result yields
> the same behavior as the previous `strncpy`-based implementation
> including the NUL-padding.
>
> Link: www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/deprecated.html#strncpy-on-nul-terminated-strings[1]
> Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/90
> Cc: linux-hardening@vger.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Justin Stitt <justinstitt@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
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Kees Cook
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-08-17 3:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-08-16 21:39 [PATCH] powerpc/ps3: refactor strncpy usage Justin Stitt
2023-08-17 3:06 ` Kees Cook [this message]
2023-08-17 6:34 ` Michael Ellerman
2023-08-17 19:58 ` Geoff Levand
2023-08-23 11:55 ` Michael Ellerman
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