On Wed, Sep 27, 2023 at 9:49 PM Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 21, 2023 at 05:41:46AM +0000, Justin Stitt wrote: > > `strncpy` is deprecated for use on NUL-terminated destination strings [1]. > > > > Let's refactor this kcalloc() + strncpy() into a kmemdup_nul() which has > > more obvious behavior and is less error prone. > > > > To avoid truncating the last byte supply `...length + 1` to > > kmemdup_nul() as `element->string.length` does not account for the > > trailing null as made obvious from it's definition (and associated > > comment): > > | u32 length; /* # of bytes in string, excluding trailing null */ > > > > ... this is precisely what the original kcalloc invocation did as well. > > > > Link: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/deprecated.html#strncpy-on-nul-terminated-strings [1] > > Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/90 > > Cc: linux-hardening@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > Signed-off-by: Justin Stitt <justinstitt@xxxxxxxxxx> > > I have multiple patches with the hwmon: prefix but no driver, > like this one, suggesting the change is in the hwmon core, > when in reality it is in some hwmon driver. > I am not going to apply any of those, and I am not even going to > look into them. Whoops, I was using some tooling to auto-fetch prefixes and the style of "xyz: (stuff in paren)" isn't always caught. I will resend with a fixed subject line matching the appropriate driver. > > Guenter Thanks Justin
