On Tue, Sep 19, 2023 at 04:41:16AM +0000, Justin Stitt wrote: > `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> Thanks, looks good. If a v3 is needed, Subject can be improved to be "...: Replace strncpy with strscpy". Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> -- Kees Cook
