`strncpy` is deprecated for use on NUL-terminated destination strings [1]
and as such we should prefer more robust and less ambiguous string
interfaces.
We know `txselect_list` is expected to be NUL-terminated based on its
use in `param_get_string()`:
| int param_get_string(char *buffer, const struct kernel_param *kp)
| {
| const struct kparam_string *kps = kp->str;
| return scnprintf(buffer, PAGE_SIZE, "%s\n", kps->string);
| }
Note that `txselect_list` is assigned to `kp_txselect`'s string field:
| static struct kparam_string kp_txselect = {
| .string = txselect_list,
| .maxlen = MAX_ATTEN_LEN
| };
Wherein it is then assigned the set and get methods:
| module_param_call(txselect, setup_txselect, param_get_string,
| &kp_txselect, S_IWUSR | S_IRUGO);
Considering the above, a suitable replacement is `strscpy` [2] due to
the fact that it guarantees NUL-termination on the destination buffer
without unnecessarily NUL-padding.
Link: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/deprecated.html#strncpy-on-nul-terminated-strings [1]
Link: https://manpages.debian.org/testing/linux-manual-4.8/strscpy.9.en.html [2]
Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/90
Cc: linux-hardening@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Justin Stitt <justinstitt@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
Note: build-tested
---
drivers/infiniband/hw/qib/qib_iba7322.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/hw/qib/qib_iba7322.c b/drivers/infiniband/hw/qib/qib_iba7322.c
index 9d2dd135b784..f93906d8fc09 100644
--- a/drivers/infiniband/hw/qib/qib_iba7322.c
+++ b/drivers/infiniband/hw/qib/qib_iba7322.c
@@ -6127,7 +6127,7 @@ static int setup_txselect(const char *str, const struct kernel_param *kp)
TXDDS_TABLE_SZ + TXDDS_EXTRA_SZ + TXDDS_MFG_SZ);
return -EINVAL;
}
- strncpy(txselect_list, str, ARRAY_SIZE(txselect_list) - 1);
+ strscpy(txselect_list, str, sizeof(txselect_list));
xa_for_each(&qib_dev_table, index, dd)
if (dd->deviceid == PCI_DEVICE_ID_QLOGIC_IB_7322)
---
base-commit: 2cf0f715623872823a72e451243bbf555d10d032
change-id: 20230921-strncpy-drivers-infiniband-hw-qib-qib_iba7322-c-48d5b8f603ee
Best regards,
--
Justin Stitt <justinstitt@xxxxxxxxxx>
