linux-hardening - Re: [PATCH v3] wifi: cfg80211: replace strlcpy() with strscpy()

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Date:   Wed, 14 Jun 2023 10:55:13 -0400
From:   Azeem Shaikh <azeemshaikh38@...il.com>
To:     Kalle Valo <kvalo@...nel.org>
Cc:     linux-hardening@...r.kernel.org, linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] wifi: cfg80211: replace strlcpy() with strscpy()

On Wed, Jun 14, 2023 at 10:24 AM Kalle Valo <kvalo@...nel.org> wrote:
>
> Azeem Shaikh <azeemshaikh38@...il.com> writes:
>
> > 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().
> >
> > Direct replacement is safe here since WIPHY_ASSIGN is only used by
> > TRACE macros and the return values are ignored.
> >
> > [1] https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/deprecated.html#strlcpy
> > [2] https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/89
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Azeem Shaikh <azeemshaikh38@...il.com>
> > ---
> > v1: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230612232301.2572316-1-azeemshaikh38@gmail.com/
> > v2: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230614134552.2108471-1-azeemshaikh38@gmail.com/
>
> In the change log (after the "---" line) you should also describe what
> changes you made, more info in the wiki below. In this case it's clear
> as the patch is simple but please keep this in mind for future patches.
>
> No need to resend because of this.
>

Thanks Kalle. I did have the below line in my changelog. For future
patches, do you mean that changelog descriptions need to be more
specific than this? For example - updated title from "x" -> "y"?

> Changes from v1 and v2 - updated patch title.