linux-hardening - Re: [PATCH] scsi: sym53c8xx: Replace all non-returning strlcpy with strscpy

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Message-Id: <168618844272.2636448.5811508326302611111.b4-ty@oracle.com>
Date:   Wed,  7 Jun 2023 21:42:08 -0400
From:   "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>
To:     Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>,
        Azeem Shaikh <azeemshaikh38@...il.com>
Cc:     "Martin K . Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.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: sym53c8xx: Replace all non-returning strlcpy with strscpy

On Tue, 30 May 2023 16:03:23 +0000, Azeem Shaikh wrote:

> 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-queue, thanks!

[1/1] scsi: sym53c8xx: Replace all non-returning strlcpy with strscpy
      https://git.kernel.org/mkp/scsi/c/af0ce90200c9

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Martin K. Petersen	Oracle Linux Engineering