linux-hardening - Re: [PATCH] net/mlx4_core: replace deprecated strncpy with strscpy

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Message-ID: <202310111430.C419092@keescook>
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2023 14:30:54 -0700
From: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
To: Justin Stitt <justinstitt@...gle.com>
Cc: Tariq Toukan <tariqt@...dia.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-hardening@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net/mlx4_core: replace deprecated strncpy with strscpy

On Wed, Oct 11, 2023 at 09:04:37PM +0000, Justin Stitt wrote:
> `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 `dst` to be NUL-terminated based on its use with format
> strings:
> |       mlx4_dbg(dev, "Reporting Driver Version to FW: %s\n", dst);
> 
> Moreover, NUL-padding is not required.

Yup, since it's only use is for the above report.

> 
> 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>

Thanks!

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

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Kees Cook