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Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2023 22:26:58 +0000
From: Justin Stitt <justinstitt@...gle.com>
To: Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@...el.com>, Tony Nguyen <anthony.l.nguyen@...el.com>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>
Cc: linux-hardening@...r.kernel.org, intel-wired-lan@...ts.osuosl.org,
netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
Justin Stitt <justinstitt@...gle.com>
Subject: [PATCH v1 net-next 5/7] igb: replace deprecated strncpy with strscpy
`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 see that netdev->name is expected to be NUL-terminated based on its
usage with format strings:
| sprintf(q_vector->name, "%s-TxRx-%u", netdev->name,
| q_vector->rx.ring->queue_index);
Furthermore, NUL-padding is not required as netdev is already
zero-allocated:
| netdev = alloc_etherdev_mq(sizeof(struct igb_adapter),
| IGB_MAX_TX_QUEUES);
...
alloc_etherdev_mq() -> alloc_etherdev_mqs() -> alloc_netdev_mqs() ...
| p = kvzalloc(alloc_size, GFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT | __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL);
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.
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@...r.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Justin Stitt <justinstitt@...gle.com>
---
Note: build-tested only.
---
drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb_main.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb_main.c
index 76b34cee1da3..9de103bd3ad3 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb_main.c
@@ -3264,7 +3264,7 @@ static int igb_probe(struct pci_dev *pdev, const struct pci_device_id *ent)
igb_set_ethtool_ops(netdev);
netdev->watchdog_timeo = 5 * HZ;
- strncpy(netdev->name, pci_name(pdev), sizeof(netdev->name) - 1);
+ strscpy(netdev->name, pci_name(pdev), sizeof(netdev->name));
netdev->mem_start = pci_resource_start(pdev, 0);
netdev->mem_end = pci_resource_end(pdev, 0);
--
2.42.0.609.gbb76f46606-goog
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