linux-hardening - Re: [PATCH] scsi: message: fusion: replace deprecated strncpy with strscpy

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Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2023 17:03:51 -0400
From: "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>
To: Sathya Prakash <sathya.prakash@...adcom.com>,
        Sreekanth Reddy <sreekanth.reddy@...adcom.com>,
        Suganath Prabu Subramani <suganath-prabu.subramani@...adcom.com>,
        Justin Stitt <justinstitt@...gle.com>
Cc: "Martin K . Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>,
        MPT-FusionLinux.pdl@...adcom.com, linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-hardening@...r.kernel.org,
        Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] scsi: message: fusion: replace deprecated strncpy with strscpy_pad

On Wed, 27 Sep 2023 04:06:09 +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.
> 
> Since all these structs are copied out to userspace let's keep them
> NUL-padded by using `strscpy_pad` which guarantees NUL-termination of
> the destination buffer while also providing the NUL-padding behavior
> that strncpy has.
> 
> [...]

Applied to 6.7/scsi-queue, thanks!

[1/1] scsi: message: fusion: replace deprecated strncpy with strscpy_pad
      https://git.kernel.org/mkp/scsi/c/4280a0a70170

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Martin K. Petersen	Oracle Linux Engineering