linux-hardening - [PATCH] ALSA: hda/tegra: refactor deprecated strncpy

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Date:   Mon, 07 Aug 2023 17:49:28 +0000
From:   Justin Stitt <justinstitt@...gle.com>
To:     Jaroslav Kysela <perex@...ex.cz>, Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.com>,
        Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@...il.com>,
        Jonathan Hunter <jonathanh@...dia.com>
Cc:     alsa-devel@...a-project.org, linux-tegra@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
        linux-hardening@...r.kernel.org,
        Justin Stitt <justinstitt@...gle.com>
Subject: [PATCH] ALSA: hda/tegra: refactor deprecated strncpy

`strncpy` is deprecated for use on NUL-terminated destination strings [1].

A suitable replacement is `strscpy` [2] due to the fact that it
guarantees NUL-termination on its destination buffer argument which is
_not_ the case for `strncpy`!

It should be noted that the current implementation is unlikely to have a
bug because `drv_name` is a string literal with a size of 9 while
`card->driver` has a size of 16. However, it is probably worthwhile to
switch to a more robust and less ambiguous interface.

[1]: www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/deprecated.html#strncpy-on-nul-terminated-strings
[2]: https://manpages.debian.org/testing/linux-manual-4.8/strscpy.9.en.html

Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/90
Cc: linux-hardening@...r.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Justin Stitt <justinstitt@...gle.com>
---
 sound/pci/hda/hda_tegra.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/sound/pci/hda/hda_tegra.c b/sound/pci/hda/hda_tegra.c
index 9d0ab043880b..f16740500d46 100644
--- a/sound/pci/hda/hda_tegra.c
+++ b/sound/pci/hda/hda_tegra.c
@@ -378,14 +378,14 @@ static int hda_tegra_first_init(struct azx *chip, struct platform_device *pdev)
 	}
 
 	/* driver name */
-	strncpy(card->driver, drv_name, sizeof(card->driver));
+	strscpy(card->driver, drv_name, sizeof(card->driver));
 	/* shortname for card */
 	sname = of_get_property(np, "nvidia,model", NULL);
 	if (!sname)
 		sname = drv_name;
 	if (strlen(sname) > sizeof(card->shortname))
 		dev_info(card->dev, "truncating shortname for card\n");
-	strncpy(card->shortname, sname, sizeof(card->shortname));
+	strscpy(card->shortname, sname, sizeof(card->shortname));
 
 	/* longname for card */
 	snprintf(card->longname, sizeof(card->longname),

---
base-commit: c1a515d3c0270628df8ae5f5118ba859b85464a2
change-id: 20230803-sound-pci-hda-c3a712b72a35

Best regards,
--
Justin Stitt <justinstitt@...gle.com>