linux-hardening - Re: [PATCH] drivers/soc: Remove all strcpy() uses in favor of strscpy()

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Date:   Sat, 31 Jul 2021 16:53:59 +0200
From:   Len Baker <len.baker@....com>
To:     Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@....com>,
        David Laight <David.Laight@...LAB.COM>,
        'Geert Uytterhoeven' <geert@...ux-m68k.org>
Cc:     Len Baker <len.baker@....com>, Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
        Andy Gross <agross@...nel.org>,
        Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson@...aro.org>,
        Magnus Damm <magnus.damm@...il.com>,
        Santosh Shilimkar <ssantosh@...nel.org>,
        "linux-hardening@...r.kernel.org" <linux-hardening@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-arm-msm <linux-arm-msm@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux-Renesas <linux-renesas-soc@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux ARM <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] drivers/soc: Remove all strcpy() uses in favor of
 strscpy()

Hi,

On Wed, Jul 28, 2021 at 10:36:09AM +0100, Robin Murphy wrote:
> On 2021-07-28 09:36, David Laight wrote:

> > > > -               strcpy(pd->name, area->name);
> > > > +               strscpy(pd->name, area->name, area_name_size);
> >
> > You can just use memcpy().
>
> Indeed. In fact I'd go as far as saying that it might be worth teaching
> static checkers to recognise patterns that boil down to strscpy(dst, src,
> strlen(src) + 1) and flag them as suspect, because AFAICS that would always
> represent either an unnecessarily elaborate memcpy(), or far worse just an
> obfuscated strcpy().

Ok, I will use the memcpy function instead of strscpy. Thanks for the
feedback.

>
> Robin.

Regards,
Len