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From: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
To: Justin Stitt <justinstitt@google.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
	Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>,
	x86@kernel.org, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-hardening@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] x86/tdx: replace deprecated strncpy with strtomem_pad
Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2023 16:44:09 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <202310031642.E858E955B2@keescook> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20231003-strncpy-arch-x86-coco-tdx-tdx-c-v2-1-0bd21174a217@google.com>

On Tue, Oct 03, 2023 at 09:54:59PM +0000, Justin Stitt wrote:
> strncpy works perfectly here in all cases, however, it is deprecated and
> as such we should prefer more robust and less ambiguous string apis.
> 
> Let's use `strtomem_pad` as this matches the functionality of `strncpy`
> and is _not_ deprecated.
> 
> Link: https://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
> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
> Signed-off-by: Justin Stitt <justinstitt@google.com>

Thanks for respinning this! And yeah, I'd agree the comment probably
should stay.

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

-- 
Kees Cook

  reply	other threads:[~2023-10-03 23:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-10-03 21:54 [PATCH v2] x86/tdx: replace deprecated strncpy with strtomem_pad Justin Stitt
2023-10-03 23:44 ` Kees Cook [this message]
2023-10-03 23:46 ` Dave Hansen
2023-10-04  7:32 ` Ingo Molnar
2024-02-07 14:03   ` Andy Shevchenko
2024-02-10  7:19     ` Kees Cook
2023-10-04  7:41 ` [tip: x86/mm] x86/tdx: Replace deprecated strncpy() with strtomem_pad() tip-bot2 for Justin Stitt

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