[PATCH] ibmvmc: replace deprecated strncpy with strscpy

Justin Stitt
2023-09-27T05:53:35Z

`strncpy` is deprecated for use on NUL-terminated destination strings
[1] and as such 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>
---
Note: build-tested only.
---
drivers/misc/ibmvmc.c | 4 +---
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/misc/ibmvmc.c b/drivers/misc/ibmvmc.c
index 2101eb12bcba..6d9ed9325f9f 100644
--- a/drivers/misc/ibmvmc.c
+++ b/drivers/misc/ibmvmc.c
@@ -1249,9 +1249,7 @@ static long ibmvmc_ioctl_sethmcid(struct ibmvmc_file_session *session,
return -EIO;
}

- /* Make sure buffer is NULL terminated before trying to print it */
- memset(print_buffer, 0, HMC_ID_LEN + 1);
- strncpy(print_buffer, hmc->hmc_id, HMC_ID_LEN);
+ strscpy(print_buffer, hmc->hmc_id, sizeof(print_buffer));
pr_info("ibmvmc: sethmcid: Set HMC ID: \"%s\"\n", print_buffer);

memcpy(buffer->real_addr_local, hmc->hmc_id, HMC_ID_LEN);

---
base-commit: 6465e260f48790807eef06b583b38ca9789b6072
change-id: 20230927-strncpy-drivers-misc-ibmvmc-c-534349716fa4

Best regards,
--
Justin Stitt <justinstitt@google.com>