`strncpy` is deprecated for use on NUL-terminated destination strings [1]. We should prefer more robust and less ambiguous string interfaces. Since `chan->base.name` is expected to be NUL-terminated, a suitable replacement is `strscpy` [2] due to the fact that it guarantees NUL-termination on the destination buffer without also unnecessarily NUL-padding (since `chan` is kzalloc'd already). 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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Justin Stitt <justinstitt@xxxxxxxxxx> --- Changes in v2: - use sizeof() instead of I2C_NAME_SIZE (thanks Kees, Patrik) - Link to v1: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230914-drivers-gpu-drm-gma500-oaktrail_lvds_i2c-c-v1-1-0a53a076ce20@xxxxxxxxxx --- drivers/gpu/drm/gma500/oaktrail_lvds_i2c.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/gma500/oaktrail_lvds_i2c.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/gma500/oaktrail_lvds_i2c.c index 06b5b2d70d48..939c53fd09e8 100644 --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/gma500/oaktrail_lvds_i2c.c +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/gma500/oaktrail_lvds_i2c.c @@ -141,7 +141,7 @@ struct gma_i2c_chan *oaktrail_lvds_i2c_init(struct drm_device *dev) chan->drm_dev = dev; chan->reg = dev_priv->lpc_gpio_base; - strncpy(chan->base.name, "gma500 LPC", I2C_NAME_SIZE - 1); + strscpy(chan->base.name, "gma500 LPC", sizeof(chan->base.name)); chan->base.owner = THIS_MODULE; chan->base.algo_data = &chan->algo; chan->base.dev.parent = dev->dev; --- base-commit: 3669558bdf354cd352be955ef2764cde6a9bf5ec change-id: 20230914-drivers-gpu-drm-gma500-oaktrail_lvds_i2c-c-a53c6d8bd62f Best regards, -- Justin Stitt <justinstitt@xxxxxxxxxx>
