linux-hardening - Re: [PATCH] scsi: qla2xxx: Replace all non-returning strlcpy with strscpy

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Message-ID: <CADmuW3U+AMVf5xDVTri4Mtyk1GnHf+E_6kPJcsNUSPjF05u7qQ@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Wed, 17 May 2023 10:11:26 -0400
From:   Azeem Shaikh <azeemshaikh38@...il.com>
To:     "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>
Cc:     Nilesh Javali <njavali@...vell.com>,
        GR-QLogic-Storage-Upstream@...vell.com,
        linux-hardening@...r.kernel.org, linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        "James E.J. Bottomley" <jejb@...ux.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] scsi: qla2xxx: Replace all non-returning strlcpy with strscpy

On Tue, May 16, 2023 at 9:42 PM Martin K. Petersen
<martin.petersen@...cle.com> wrote:
>
>
> Azeem,
>
> > 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(). No return values were used, so direct replacement is
> > safe.
>
> Applied to 6.5/scsi-staging, thanks!
>

Thanks a lot for the quick response Martin (on this and other patches
too). Just for my understanding, do you mind pointing me to the
6.5/scsi-staging tree?