On Wed, Oct 18, 2023 at 10:14:55PM +0000, Justin Stitt wrote: > 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 expect chinfo.name to be NUL-terminated based on its use with format > strings and sprintf: > rpmsg/rpmsg_char.c > 165: dev_err(dev, "failed to open %s\n", eptdev->chinfo.name); > 368: return sprintf(buf, "%s\n", eptdev->chinfo.name); > > ... and with strcmp(): > | static struct rpmsg_endpoint *qcom_glink_create_ept(struct rpmsg_device *rpdev, > | rpmsg_rx_cb_t cb, > | void *priv, > | struct rpmsg_channel_info > | chinfo) > | ... > | const char *name = chinfo.name; > | ... > | if (!strcmp(channel->name, name)) > > Moreover, as chinfo is not kzalloc'd, let's opt to NUL-pad the > destination buffer > > Similar change to: > Commit 766279a8f85d ("rpmsg: qcom: glink: replace strncpy() with strscpy_pad()") > and > Commit 08de420a8014 ("rpmsg: glink: Replace strncpy() with strscpy_pad()") > > Considering the above, a suitable replacement is `strscpy_pad` due to > the fact that it guarantees both NUL-termination and NUL-padding on the > destination buffer. > > 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> > --- > Note: build-tested only. > > Found with: $ rg "strncpy\(" > --- > drivers/net/wwan/rpmsg_wwan_ctrl.c | 2 +- > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) > > diff --git a/drivers/net/wwan/rpmsg_wwan_ctrl.c b/drivers/net/wwan/rpmsg_wwan_ctrl.c > index 86b60aadfa11..39f5e780c478 100644 > --- a/drivers/net/wwan/rpmsg_wwan_ctrl.c > +++ b/drivers/net/wwan/rpmsg_wwan_ctrl.c > @@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ static int rpmsg_wwan_ctrl_start(struct wwan_port *port) > .dst = RPMSG_ADDR_ANY, > }; "chinfo" is initialized immediately above here, which means that it is actually already zero filled for all the members that aren't explicitly initialized, so the _pad variant isn't needed. I suspect Dead Store Elimination will optimize it all away anyway, so this is probably fine. > > - strncpy(chinfo.name, rpwwan->rpdev->id.name, RPMSG_NAME_SIZE); > + strscpy_pad(chinfo.name, rpwwan->rpdev->id.name, sizeof(chinfo.name)); Yup, sizeof() replacement looks correct: struct rpmsg_channel_info { char name[RPMSG_NAME_SIZE]; Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> -Kees -- Kees Cook