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Message-ID: <169263421674.572263.16005174999269308938.kvalo@kernel.org>
Date:   Mon, 21 Aug 2023 16:10:18 +0000 (UTC)
From:   Kalle Valo <kvalo@...nel.org>
To:     Justin Stitt <justinstitt@...gle.com>
Cc:     Stanislav Yakovlev <stas.yakovlev@...il.com>,
        Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
        linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-hardening@...r.kernel.org,
        Justin Stitt <justinstitt@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [v2] wifi: ipw2x00: refactor to use kstrtoul

Justin Stitt <justinstitt@...gle.com> wrote:

> The current implementation seems to reinvent what `kstrtoul` already does
> in terms of functionality and error handling. Remove uses of `simple_strtoul()`
> in favor of `kstrtoul()`.
> 
> There is the following note at `lib/vsprintf.c:simple_strtoull()` which
> further backs this change:
> | * This function has caveats. Please use kstrtoull (or kstrtoul) instead.
> 
> And here, simple_str* are explicitly deprecated [3].
> 
> This patch also removes an instance of the deprecated `strncpy` which helps [2].
> 
> Compile tested only.
> 
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/202308011602.3CC1C0244C@keescook/ [1]
> Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/90 [2]
> Link: https://docs.kernel.org/process/deprecated.html#simple-strtol-simple-strtoll-simple-strtoul-simple-strtoull [3]
> Cc: linux-hardening@...r.kernel.org
> Suggested-by: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
> Signed-off-by: Justin Stitt <justinstitt@...gle.com>
> Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>

Patch applied to wireless-next.git, thanks.

876777494634 wifi: ipw2x00: refactor to use kstrtoul

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https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-wireless/patch/20230802-wifi-ipw2x00-refactor-v2-1-d33f765e9cd5@google.com/

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