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Message-ID: <20231010-strncpy-drivers-net-ethernet-intel-igbvf-netdev-c-v1-1-69ccfb2c2aa5@google.com> Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2023 21:12:00 +0000 From: Justin Stitt <justinstitt@...gle.com> To: Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@...el.com>, Tony Nguyen <anthony.l.nguyen@...el.com>, "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>, Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com> Cc: intel-wired-lan@...ts.osuosl.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-hardening@...r.kernel.org, Justin Stitt <justinstitt@...gle.com> Subject: [PATCH] igbvf: replace deprecated strncpy with strscpy `strncpy` is deprecated for use on NUL-terminated destination strings [1] and as such we should prefer more robust and less ambiguous string interfaces. We expect netdev->name to be NUL-terminated based on its usage with `strlen` and format strings: | if (strlen(netdev->name) < (IFNAMSIZ - 5)) { | sprintf(adapter->tx_ring->name, "%s-tx-0", netdev->name); Moreover, we do not need NUL-padding as netdev is already zero-allocated: | netdev = alloc_etherdev(sizeof(struct igbvf_adapter)); ... alloc_etherdev() -> alloc_etherdev_mq() -> alloc_etherdev_mqs() -> alloc_netdev_mqs() ... | p = kvzalloc(alloc_size, GFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT | __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL); Considering the above, 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> --- Note: build-tested only. --- drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igbvf/netdev.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igbvf/netdev.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igbvf/netdev.c index 7ff2752dd763..fd712585af27 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igbvf/netdev.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igbvf/netdev.c @@ -2785,7 +2785,7 @@ static int igbvf_probe(struct pci_dev *pdev, const struct pci_device_id *ent) igbvf_set_ethtool_ops(netdev); netdev->watchdog_timeo = 5 * HZ; - strncpy(netdev->name, pci_name(pdev), sizeof(netdev->name) - 1); + strscpy(netdev->name, pci_name(pdev), sizeof(netdev->name)); adapter->bd_number = cards_found++; --- base-commit: cbf3a2cb156a2c911d8f38d8247814b4c07f49a2 change-id: 20231010-strncpy-drivers-net-ethernet-intel-igbvf-netdev-c-aea454a18a2d Best regards, -- Justin Stitt <justinstitt@...gle.com>
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