From: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
To: Justin Stitt <justinstitt@google.com>
Cc: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>,
Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>,
Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@gmail.com>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-hardening@vger.kernel.org,
Alexander Lobakin <aleksander.lobakin@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] net: dsa: lan9303: use ethtool_puts() for lan9303_get_strings()
Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2024 16:20:52 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <202404081620.D050527@keescook> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20240408-strncpy-drivers-net-dsa-lan9303-core-c-v3-1-0c313694d25b@google.com>
On Mon, Apr 08, 2024 at 09:01:57PM +0000, Justin Stitt wrote:
> This pattern of strncpy with some pointer arithmetic setting fixed-sized
> intervals with string literal data is a bit weird so let's use
> ethtool_puts() as this has more obvious behavior and is less-error
> prone.
>
> Nicely, we also get to drop a usage of the now deprecated strncpy() [1].
>
> 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>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
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Kees Cook
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-04-08 23:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-04-08 21:01 [PATCH v3] net: dsa: lan9303: use ethtool_puts() for lan9303_get_strings() Justin Stitt
2024-04-08 23:20 ` Kees Cook [this message]
2024-04-09 8:58 ` Alexander Lobakin
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