Re: dm crypt: replace open-coded kmemdup_nul

Kees Cook
2023-10-24T21:35:09Z

On Tue, Oct 24, 2023 at 05:33:12PM -0400, Mike Snitzer wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 24 2023 at 5:18P -0400,
> Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> wrote:
>
> > On Mon, 25 Sep 2023 06:35:54 +0000, Justin Stitt wrote:
> > > kzalloc() followed by strncpy() on an expected NUL-terminated string is
> > > just kmemdup_nul(). Let's simplify this code (while also dropping a
> > > deprecated strncpy() call [1]).
> > >
> > >
> >
> > Applied to for-next/hardening, thanks!
> >
> > [1/1] dm crypt: replace open-coded kmemdup_nul
> > https://git.kernel.org/kees/c/17348b0a6a6d
> >
> > Take care,
> >
> > --
> > Kees Cook
> >
>
> I had picked up this patch and the 3 others in my local tree
> yesterday, was going to push shortly... do you still want them to go
> through your hardening tree?

Oh! Great; thank you! I'll drop them from my tree. :)

-Kees

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Kees Cook