linux-hardening - Re: [PATCH v5] hwmon: (acpi_power_meter) replace open-coded kmemdup

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Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2023 10:39:39 -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 v5] hwmon: (acpi_power_meter) replace open-coded
 kmemdup_nul

On Tue, Sep 26, 2023 at 06:59:15AM +0000, Justin Stitt wrote:
> `strncpy` is deprecated for use on NUL-terminated destination strings [1].
> 
> Let's refactor this kcalloc() + strncpy() into a kmemdup_nul() which has
> more obvious behavior and is less error prone.
> 
> Link: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/deprecated.html#strncpy-on-nul-terminated-strings [1]
> Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/90
> Cc: linux-hardening@...r.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Justin Stitt <justinstitt@...gle.com>

Thanks for continue to rev this change. This looks much nicer, is more
readable, etc. :)

Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>

-- 
Kees Cook