From: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
To: Justin Stitt <justinstitt@google.com>
Cc: Ben Skeggs <bskeggs@redhat.com>,
Karol Herbst <kherbst@redhat.com>, Lyude Paul <lyude@redhat.com>,
David Airlie <airlied@gmail.com>, Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch>,
dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org, nouveau@lists.freedesktop.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-hardening@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] drm/nouveau/pm: refactor deprecated strncpy
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2023 21:59:26 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <202309142158.59A6C62F@keescook> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230914-strncpy-drivers-gpu-drm-nouveau-nvkm-engine-pm-base-c-v1-1-4b09ed453f84@google.com>
On Thu, Sep 14, 2023 at 10:17:08PM +0000, Justin Stitt wrote:
> `strncpy` is deprecated for use on NUL-terminated destination strings [1].
>
> We should prefer more robust and less ambiguous string interfaces.
>
> 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>
The "- 1" use in the original code is strong evidence for this being a
sane conversion. :)
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
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Kees Cook
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-09-15 4:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-09-14 22:17 [PATCH] drm/nouveau/pm: refactor deprecated strncpy Justin Stitt
2023-09-15 4:59 ` Kees Cook [this message]
2023-09-15 17:32 ` Lyude Paul
2023-09-15 17:34 ` Lyude Paul
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