On Thu, Oct 26, 2023 at 11:53:28PM +0000, Justin Stitt wrote: > We're doing some needless string copies when trying to assign the proper > `prop` string. We can make `prop` a const char* and simply assign to > string literals. > > For the case where a format string is used, let's allocate some memory > via kasprintf() and point prop to it. > > This also cleans up some deprecated strncpy() uses [1]. > > 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> Looks like a reasonable way to go. Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> -- Kees Cook
