Re: [PATCH v4] kobject: Replace strlcpy with strscpy

Kees Cook
2023-08-31T18:33:04Z

On Thu, Aug 31, 2023 at 02:01:04PM +0000, Azeem Shaikh wrote:
> strlcpy() reads the entire source buffer first.
> This read may exceed the destination size limit.
> This is both inefficient and can lead to linear read
> overflows if a source string is not NUL-terminated [1].
> In an effort to remove strlcpy() completely [2], replace
> strlcpy() here with strscpy().
>
> Direct replacement is safe here since return value of -errno
> is used to check for truncation instead of sizeof(dest).
>
> [1] https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/deprecated.html#strlcpy
> [2] https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/89
>
> Signed-off-by: Azeem Shaikh <azeemshaikh38@gmail.com>

Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>

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