From: Wolfram Sang <wsa@kernel.org>
To: Len Baker <len.baker@gmx.com>
Cc: Maxime Ripard <mripard@kernel.org>, Chen-Yu Tsai <wens@csie.org>,
Jernej Skrabec <jernej.skrabec@gmail.com>,
linux-i2c@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
linux-sunxi@lists.linux.dev, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] i2c: sun6i-pw2i: Prefer strscpy over strlcpy
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2021 21:36:28 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YRwPvKZm8i47xFXP@kunai> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210817165859.5429-1-len.baker@gmx.com>
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On Tue, Aug 17, 2021 at 06:58:59PM +0200, Len Baker wrote:
> strlcpy() reads the entire source buffer first. This read may exceed the
> destination size limit. This is both inefficient and can lead to linear
> read overflows if a source string is not NUL-terminated. The safe
> replacement is strscpy().
>
> This is a previous step in the path to remove the strlcpy() function
> entirely from the kernel [1].
>
> [1] https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/89
>
> Signed-off-by: Len Baker <len.baker@gmx.com>
Applied to for-next, thanks!
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2021-08-17 16:58 [PATCH] i2c: sun6i-pw2i: Prefer strscpy over strlcpy Len Baker
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