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From: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
To: Justin Stitt <justinstitt@google.com>
Cc: James Smart <james.smart@broadcom.com>,
	Ram Vegesna <ram.vegesna@broadcom.com>,
	"James E.J. Bottomley" <jejb@linux.ibm.com>,
	"Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>,
	linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, target-devel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-hardening@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] scsi: elx: libefc: replace deprecated strncpy with strscpy_pad/memcpy
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2023 10:45:28 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <202310261045.5D815BE@keescook> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20231026-strncpy-drivers-scsi-elx-libefc-efc_node-h-v2-1-5c083d0c13f4@google.com>

On Thu, Oct 26, 2023 at 01:53:13AM +0000, Justin Stitt wrote:
> strncpy() is deprecated for use on NUL-terminated destination strings
> [1] and as such we should prefer more robust and less ambiguous string
> interfaces.
> 
> To keep node->current_state_name and node->prev_state_name NUL-padded
> and NUL-terminated let's use strscpy_pad() as this implicitly provides
> both.
> 
> For the swap between the two, a simple memcpy will suffice.
> 
> 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>

Thanks! I think this looks good now.

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

-- 
Kees Cook

  reply	other threads:[~2023-10-26 17:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-10-26  1:53 [PATCH v2] scsi: elx: libefc: replace deprecated strncpy with strscpy_pad/memcpy Justin Stitt
2023-10-26 17:45 ` Kees Cook [this message]
2023-11-15 14:46 ` Martin K. Petersen
2023-11-25  2:54 ` Martin K. Petersen

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