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From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
To: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
Cc: justinstitt@google.com, 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>,
	Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>,
	Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: dsa: remove deprecated strncpy
Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2023 12:11:16 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20230718121116.72267fff@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <316E4325-6845-4EFC-AAF8-160622C42144@kernel.org>

On Tue, 18 Jul 2023 11:05:23 -0700 Kees Cook wrote:
> Honestly I find the entire get_strings API to be very fragile given
> the lack of passing the length of the buffer, instead depending on
> the string set length lookups in each callback, but refactoring that
> looks like a ton of work for an uncertain benefit.

We have been adding better APIs for long term, and a print helper short
term - ethtool_sprintf(). Should we use ethtool_sprintf() here?

  reply	other threads:[~2023-07-18 19:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-07-18  0:04 [PATCH] net: dsa: remove deprecated strncpy justinstitt
2023-07-18 18:05 ` Kees Cook
2023-07-18 19:11   ` Jakub Kicinski [this message]
2023-07-18 19:31     ` Andrew Lunn
2023-07-18 19:41       ` Jakub Kicinski
2023-07-19  8:47       ` David Laight
2023-07-18 18:08 ` Nick Desaulniers

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