Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.10 02/14] crypto: lrw,xts - Replace strlcpy with strscpy

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On Fri 2023-09-08 14:19:49, Sasha Levin wrote:
> From: Azeem Shaikh <azeemshaikh38@xxxxxxxxx>
> 
> [ Upstream commit babb80b3ecc6f40c962e13c654ebcd27f25ee327 ]
> 
> strlcpy() reads the entire source buffer first.
> This read may exceed the destination size limit.
> This is both inefficient and can lead to linear read
> overflows if a source string is not NUL-terminated [1].
> In an effort to remove strlcpy() completely [2], replace
> strlcpy() here with strscpy().
> 
> Direct replacement is safe here since return value of -errno
> is used to check for truncation instead of sizeof(dest).

We don't need this in stable, do we?

BR,
							Pavel
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