Re: [PATCH 5.10 1/1] rpmsg: qcom: glink: replace strncpy() with strscpy_pad()

['Greg Kroah-Hartman' <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Sun, Oct 09, 2022 at 05:23:06PM +0200, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> On 08/10/2022 23:11, David Laight wrote:
> >>> ---
> >>>  drivers/rpmsg/qcom_glink_native.c | 2 +-
> >>>  drivers/rpmsg/qcom_smd.c          | 4 ++--
> >>>  2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> >>
> >> Why just this specific kernel branch?  We can't add patches to an older
> >> tree and have someone upgrade to a newer one and hit the same issue.
> >>
> >> So please provide backports for all active versions.  In this case that
> >> would be 5.15.y and 5.19.y.
> > 
> > If it is only fixing a compile warning is it even stable material?
> > The generic commit message doesn't say whether the old code was
> > actually right or wrong.
> > 
> > At least one of these 'replace strncpy()' changes was definitely
> > broken (the copy needed to be equivalent to memcpy()).
> > 
> > So applying ANY of them to stable unless they actually fix
> > a real bug seems dubious.
> 
> Except the warning from GCC, there was no bug to fix. The warning is
> about discouraged and risky practice, but no actual real risk was
> identified, so for me it matches stable rules poorly.
> 
> It's basically backporting to silence automated code checkers...

Are you sure?  Look at the code path here, there might be a way to
overflow the string, from the virtio interface, but I might be wrong...

Anyway, I need all the backports before I can take this one, sorry.

greg k-h