linux-hardening - Re: [PATCH] drm/nouveau/pm: refactor deprecated strncpy

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Message-ID: <43da274f22acaae8b917f51f6e62376928163e8f.camel@redhat.com>
Date:   Fri, 15 Sep 2023 13:32:50 -0400
From:   Lyude Paul <lyude@...hat.com>
To:     Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
        Justin Stitt <justinstitt@...gle.com>
Cc:     Ben Skeggs <bskeggs@...hat.com>, Karol Herbst <kherbst@...hat.com>,
        David Airlie <airlied@...il.com>,
        Daniel Vetter <daniel@...ll.ch>,
        dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org, nouveau@...ts.freedesktop.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-hardening@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] drm/nouveau/pm: refactor deprecated strncpy

Nice catch!

Reviewed-by: Lyude Paul <lyude@...hat.com>

Will push in just a moment

On Thu, 2023-09-14 at 21:59 -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 14, 2023 at 10:17:08PM +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>
> 
> The "- 1" use in the original code is strong evidence for this being a
> sane conversion. :)
> 
> Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
> 

-- 
Cheers,
 Lyude Paul (she/her)
 Software Engineer at Red Hat