strncpy() is deprecated for use on NUL-terminated destination strings [1] and as such we should prefer more robust and less ambiguous string interfaces. `extra` is clearly supposed to be NUL-terminated which is evident by the manual NUL-byte assignment as well as its immediate usage with strlen(). Moreover, let's NUL-pad since there is deliberate effort (48 instances) made elsewhere to zero-out buffers in these getters and setters: 6050 | memset(local->config.nodeName, 0, sizeof(local->config.nodeName)); 6130 | memset(local->config.rates, 0, 8); 6139 | memset(local->config.rates, 0, 8); 6414 | memset(key.key, 0, MAX_KEY_SIZE); 6497 | memset(extra, 0, 16); (to be clear, strncpy also NUL-padded -- we are matching that behavior) 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. Technically, we can now copy one less byte into `extra` as we cannot determine the sizeof `extra` at compile time and the hard-coded value of 16 means that strscpy_pad() will automatically truncate and set the byte at offset 15 to NUL. However, the current code manually sets a NUL-byte at offset 16. If this is an issue, the solution is to change the hard-coded magic number to 17 instead of 16. I didn't do this in this patch because a hard-coded 17 seems bad (even more so than 16). 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/wireless/cisco/airo.c | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/cisco/airo.c b/drivers/net/wireless/cisco/airo.c index dbd13f7aa3e6..8cfb1de5933e 100644 --- a/drivers/net/wireless/cisco/airo.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/cisco/airo.c @@ -6067,8 +6067,7 @@ static int airo_get_nick(struct net_device *dev, struct airo_info *local = dev->ml_priv; readConfigRid(local, 1); - strncpy(extra, local->config.nodeName, 16); - extra[16] = '\0'; + strscpy_pad(extra, local->config.nodeName, 16); dwrq->length = strlen(extra); return 0; --- base-commit: 58720809f52779dc0f08e53e54b014209d13eebb change-id: 20231017-strncpy-drivers-net-wireless-cisco-airo-c-d09cd0500a6e Best regards, -- Justin Stitt <justinstitt@xxxxxxxxxx>
