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Message-ID: <202309142216.D52AFDF@keescook> Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2023 22:17:31 -0700 From: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org> To: Justin Stitt <justinstitt@...gle.com> Cc: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@...e.com>, Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>, linux-hwmon@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-hardening@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] hwmon: refactor deprecated strncpy On Thu, Sep 14, 2023 at 10:50:15PM +0000, Justin Stitt wrote: > `strncpy` is deprecated for use on NUL-terminated destination strings [1]. > > We should prefer more robust and less ambiguous string interfaces. > > A suitable replacement is `strscpy` [2] due to the fact that it guarantees > NUL-termination on the destination buffer without unnecessarily NUL-padding. > > Link: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/deprecated.html#strncpy-on-nul-terminated-strings [1] > Link: https://manpages.debian.org/testing/linux-manual-4.8/strscpy.9.en.html [2] > Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/90 > Cc: linux-hardening@...r.kernel.org > Signed-off-by: Justin Stitt <justinstitt@...gle.com> > --- > drivers/hwmon/acpi_power_meter.c | 2 +- > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) > > diff --git a/drivers/hwmon/acpi_power_meter.c b/drivers/hwmon/acpi_power_meter.c > index fa28d447f0df..9bafe7c85ff7 100644 > --- a/drivers/hwmon/acpi_power_meter.c > +++ b/drivers/hwmon/acpi_power_meter.c > @@ -803,7 +803,7 @@ static int read_capabilities(struct acpi_power_meter_resource *resource) > goto error; > } > > - strncpy(*str, element->string.pointer, element->string.length); > + strscpy(*str, element->string.pointer, element->string.length); This will truncate the destination by 1 training character. This is better replaced with just memcpy() (all the size information has already been calculated and %NUL termination space made in the kcalloc() above it. -Kees > str++; > } > > > --- > base-commit: 3669558bdf354cd352be955ef2764cde6a9bf5ec > change-id: 20230914-strncpy-drivers-hwmon-acpi_power_meter-c-c9f2d8053bef > > Best regards, > -- > Justin Stitt <justinstitt@...gle.com> > -- Kees Cook
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