Hi,
On Thu, Mar 28, 2024 at 03:04:54PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
>
> gcc-10 warns about a strncpy() that does not enforce zero-termination:
>
> In file included from include/linux/string.h:369,
> from drivers/staging/greybus/fw-management.c:9:
> In function 'strncpy',
> inlined from 'fw_mgmt_backend_fw_update_operation' at drivers/staging/greybus/fw-management.c:306:2:
> include/linux/fortify-string.h:108:30: error: '__builtin_strncpy' specified bound 10 equals destination size [-Werror=stringop-truncation]
> 108 | #define __underlying_strncpy __builtin_strncpy
> | ^
> include/linux/fortify-string.h:187:9: note: in expansion of macro '__underlying_strncpy'
> 187 | return __underlying_strncpy(p, q, size);
> | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
> For some reason, I cannot reproduce this with gcc-9 or gcc-11, so I'm not
> sure what's going on. Changing it to strspy() avoids the warning. In this
> case the existing check for zero-termination would fail but can be replaced
> with an error check.
>
>
Arnd, I see 4 instances of strncpy() in this file. Could you clean them
all up at once which would help GREATLY towards:
https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/90
strncpy() is an often misued and misunderstood (and deprecated [1])
string API, let's get rid of that thing all together!
[1]: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/deprecated.html#strcpy
>
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
> ---
> This is from randconfig testing with random gcc versions, a .config to
> reproduce is at https://pastebin.com/r13yezkU
> ---
> drivers/staging/greybus/fw-management.c | 4 ++--
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/greybus/fw-management.c b/drivers/staging/greybus/fw-management.c
> index 3054f084d777..35bfdd5f32d2 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/greybus/fw-management.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/greybus/fw-management.c
> @@ -303,13 +303,13 @@ static int fw_mgmt_backend_fw_update_operation(struct fw_mgmt *fw_mgmt,
> struct gb_fw_mgmt_backend_fw_update_request request;
> int ret;
>
> - strncpy(request.firmware_tag, tag, GB_FIRMWARE_TAG_MAX_SIZE);
> + ret = strscpy(request.firmware_tag, tag, GB_FIRMWARE_TAG_MAX_SIZE);
>
> /*
> * The firmware-tag should be NULL terminated, otherwise throw error and
> * fail.
> */
> - if (request.firmware_tag[GB_FIRMWARE_TAG_MAX_SIZE - 1] != '\0') {
> + if (ret == -E2BIG) {
> dev_err(fw_mgmt->parent, "backend-update: firmware-tag is not NULL terminated\n");
> return -EINVAL;
> }
> --
> 2.39.2
>
Thanks
Justin
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