The patch titled
Subject: Squashfs: remove deprecated strncpy by not copying the string
has been added to the -mm mm-nonmm-unstable branch. Its filename is
squashfs-remove-deprecated-strncpy-by-not-copying-the-string.patch
This patch will shortly appear at
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/25-new.git/tree/patches/squashfs-remove-deprecated-strncpy-by-not-copying-the-string.patch
This patch will later appear in the mm-nonmm-unstable branch at
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm
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From: Phillip Lougher <phillip@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Squashfs: remove deprecated strncpy by not copying the string
Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2024 19:33:52 +0100
Squashfs copied the passed string (name) into a temporary buffer to ensure
it was NUL-terminated. This however is completely unnecessary as the
string is already NUL-terminated. So remove the deprecated strncpy() by
completely removing the string copy.
The background behind this unnecessary string copy is that it dates back
to the days when Squashfs was an out of kernel patch. The code
deliberately did not assume the string was NUL-terminated in case in
future this changed (due to kernel changes). This would mean the out of
tree patches would be broken but still compile OK.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240403183352.391308-1-phillip@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Phillip Lougher <phillip@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Justin Stitt <justinstitt@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/squashfs/namei.c | 14 ++++----------
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
--- a/fs/squashfs/namei.c~squashfs-remove-deprecated-strncpy-by-not-copying-the-string
+++ a/fs/squashfs/namei.c
@@ -62,27 +62,21 @@
*/
static int get_dir_index_using_name(struct super_block *sb,
u64 *next_block, int *next_offset, u64 index_start,
- int index_offset, int i_count, const char *name,
- int len)
+ int index_offset, int i_count, const char *name)
{
struct squashfs_sb_info *msblk = sb->s_fs_info;
int i, length = 0, err;
unsigned int size;
struct squashfs_dir_index *index;
- char *str;
TRACE("Entered get_dir_index_using_name, i_count %d\n", i_count);
- index = kmalloc(sizeof(*index) + SQUASHFS_NAME_LEN * 2 + 2, GFP_KERNEL);
+ index = kmalloc(sizeof(*index) + SQUASHFS_NAME_LEN + 1, GFP_KERNEL);
if (index == NULL) {
ERROR("Failed to allocate squashfs_dir_index\n");
goto out;
}
- str = &index->name[SQUASHFS_NAME_LEN + 1];
- strncpy(str, name, len);
- str[len] = '\0';
-
for (i = 0; i < i_count; i++) {
err = squashfs_read_metadata(sb, index, &index_start,
&index_offset, sizeof(*index));
@@ -101,7 +95,7 @@ static int get_dir_index_using_name(stru
index->name[size] = '\0';
- if (strcmp(index->name, str) > 0)
+ if (strcmp(index->name, name) > 0)
break;
length = le32_to_cpu(index->index);
@@ -153,7 +147,7 @@ static struct dentry *squashfs_lookup(st
length = get_dir_index_using_name(dir->i_sb, &block, &offset,
squashfs_i(dir)->dir_idx_start,
squashfs_i(dir)->dir_idx_offset,
- squashfs_i(dir)->dir_idx_cnt, name, len);
+ squashfs_i(dir)->dir_idx_cnt, name);
while (length < i_size_read(dir)) {
/*
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from phillip@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are
squashfs-remove-deprecated-strncpy-by-not-copying-the-string.patch
