Quoting Douglas Anderson (2022-06-27 16:17:00) > Commit ac0126a01735 ("soc: qcom: cmd-db: replace strncpy() with > strscpy_pad()") breaks booting on my sc7280-herobrine-herobrine > device. From printouts I see that at bootup the function is called > with an id of "lnbclka2" which is 8 bytes big. > > Previously all 8 bytes of this string were copied to the > destination. Now only 7 bytes will be copied since strscpy_pad() saves > a byte for '\0' termination. > > We don't need the '\0' termination in the destination. Let's go back > to strncpy(). According to the warning: > If a caller is using non-NUL-terminated strings, strncpy() can still > be used, but destinations should be marked with the __nonstring > attribute to avoid future compiler warnings. > ...so we'll do that. > > Fixes: ac0126a01735 ("soc: qcom: cmd-db: replace strncpy() with strscpy_pad()") > Signed-off-by: Douglas Anderson <dianders@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > --- > > drivers/soc/qcom/cmd-db.c | 4 ++-- > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/drivers/soc/qcom/cmd-db.c b/drivers/soc/qcom/cmd-db.c > index c5137c25d819..0aafe90277bc 100644 > --- a/drivers/soc/qcom/cmd-db.c > +++ b/drivers/soc/qcom/cmd-db.c > @@ -141,14 +141,14 @@ static int cmd_db_get_header(const char *id, const struct entry_header **eh, > const struct rsc_hdr *rsc_hdr; > const struct entry_header *ent; > int ret, i, j; > - u8 query[8]; > + u8 query[8] __nonstring; Since you're already here, can you change 8 to be sizeof(ent->id)? That would directly tie the two lengths together so that one can't change and then the carefully crafted strncpy() fails again. > > ret = cmd_db_ready(); > if (ret) > return ret; > > /* Pad out query string to same length as in DB */ > - strscpy_pad(query, id, sizeof(query)); > + strncpy(query, id, sizeof(query));