linux-hardening - Re: [PATCH v4] EDAC/mc_sysfs: refactor deprecated strncpy

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Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2023 12:00:05 -0700
From: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
To: Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
	Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>,
	James Morse <james.morse@....com>,
	Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...nel.org>,
	Robert Richter <rric@...nel.org>,
	Justin Stitt <justinstitt@...gle.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
	linux-edac@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-hardening@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4] EDAC/mc_sysfs: refactor deprecated strncpy

On Mon, 18 Sep 2023 07:47:29 +0000, Justin Stitt wrote:
> `strncpy` is deprecated for use on NUL-terminated destination strings [1].
> 
> We've already calculated bounds, possible truncation with '\0' or '\n'
> and manually NUL-terminated. The situation is now just a literal byte
> copy from one buffer to another, let's treat it as such and use a less
> ambiguous interface in memcpy.
> 
> [...]

Applied to for-next/hardening, thanks! (Subject updated...)

Take care,

-- 
Kees Cook