From: "Kiyanovski, Arthur" <akiyano@amazon.com>
To: "justinstitt@google.com" <justinstitt@google.com>,
"Agroskin, Shay" <shayagr@amazon.com>,
"Arinzon, David" <darinzon@amazon.com>,
"Dagan, Noam" <ndagan@amazon.com>,
"Bshara, Saeed" <saeedb@amazon.com>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Cc: "netdev@vger.kernel.org" <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"linux-hardening@vger.kernel.org"
<linux-hardening@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: [PATCH v2] net: ena: replace deprecated strncpy with strscpy
Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2023 21:48:23 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <6a877c080404447c8f715c614b276bef@amazon.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20231207-strncpy-drivers-net-ethernet-amazon-ena-ena_netdev-c-v2-1-a1f2893d1b70@google.com>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: justinstitt@google.com <justinstitt@google.com>
>
> `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.
>
> host_info allocation is done in ena_com_allocate_host_info() via
> dma_alloc_coherent() and is not zero initialized by alloc_etherdev_mq().
>
> However zero initialization of the destination doesn't matter in this case,
> because strscpy() guarantees a NULL termination.
>
> 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>
> ---
> Changes in v2:
> - update commit message, dropping inaccurate statement about allocation
> (thanks Arthur)
> - copy/paste Arthur's explanation regarding host_info allocation into
> - rebased onto mainline
> - Link to v1: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231005-strncpy-drivers-net-ethernet-
> amazon-ena-ena_netdev-c-v1-1-ba4879974160@google.com
> ---
> Note: build-tested only.
> ---
> ..................
> Best regards,
> --
> Justin Stitt <justinstitt@google.com>
Thanks for making the necessary changes to the commit message Justin.
Looks good.
Acked-by: Arthur Kiyanovski <akiyano@amazon.com>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-12-07 21:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-12-07 21:34 [PATCH v2] net: ena: replace deprecated strncpy with strscpy justinstitt
2023-12-07 21:48 ` Kiyanovski, Arthur [this message]
2023-12-08 17:22 ` Kees Cook
2023-12-10 19:10 ` patchwork-bot+netdevbpf
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