On 13. 10. 23, 22:53, 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 led->name to be NUL-terminated based on the presence of a
manual NUL-byte assignment.
This NUL-byte assignment was added in Commit daf9669bea30aa22 ("ath5k:
ensure led name is null terminated"). If strscpy() had existed and had
been used back when this code was written then potential bugs and the
need to manually NUL-terminate could have been avoided. Since we now
have the technology, let's use it :)
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. If NUL-padding is required let's opt
for strscpy_pad().
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>
LGTM
Reviewed-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@xxxxxxxxxx>
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js
suse labs
