Re: [PATCH] SUNRPC: Replace strlcpy with strscpy

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On Tue, Jun 13, 2023 at 3:43 PM Chuck Lever III <chuck.lever@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > On Jun 13, 2023, at 3:42 PM, Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, Jun 13, 2023 at 02:18:06PM +0000, Chuck Lever III wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>> On Jun 12, 2023, at 8:40 PM, Azeem Shaikh <azeemshaikh38@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> strlcpy() reads the entire source buffer first.
> >>> This read may exceed the destination size limit.
> >>> This is both inefficient and can lead to linear read
> >>> overflows if a source string is not NUL-terminated [1].
> >>> In an effort to remove strlcpy() completely [2], replace
> >>> strlcpy() here with strscpy().
> >>
> >> Using sprintf() seems cleaner to me: it would get rid of
> >> the undocumented naked integer. Would that work for you?
> >
> > This is changing the "get" routine for reporting module parameters out
> > of /sys. I think the right choice here is sysfs_emit(), as it performs
> > the size tracking correctly. (Even the "default" sprintf() call should
> > be replaced too, IMO.)
>
> Agreed, that's even better.
>

Thanks folks. Will send over a v2 which replaces strlcpy with sysfs_emit.




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