linux-hardening - [PATCH net-next 6/9] i40e: use scnprintf over strncpy+strncat

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Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2023 12:04:08 -0700
From: Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@...el.com>
To: netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
Cc: Justin Stitt <justinstitt@...gle.com>,
	linux-hardening@...r.kernel.org,
	Pucha Himasekhar Reddy <himasekharx.reddy.pucha@...el.com>,
	Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@...el.com>
Subject: [PATCH net-next 6/9] i40e: use scnprintf over strncpy+strncat

From: Justin Stitt <justinstitt@...gle.com>

`strncpy` is deprecated for use on NUL-terminated destination strings
[1] and as such we should prefer more robust and less ambiguous string
interfaces.

Moreover, `strncat` shouldn't really be used either as per
fortify-string.h:
 * Do not use this function. While FORTIFY_SOURCE tries to avoid
 * read and write overflows, this is only possible when the sizes
 * of @p and @q are known to the compiler. Prefer building the
 * string with formatting, via scnprintf() or similar.

Instead, use `scnprintf` with "%s%s" format string. This code is now
more readable and robust.

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>
Tested-by: Pucha Himasekhar Reddy <himasekharx.reddy.pucha@...el.com> (A Contingent worker at Intel)
Signed-off-by: Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@...el.com>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_ddp.c | 7 +++----
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_ddp.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_ddp.c
index 6b68b6575a1d..cf25bfc5dc3f 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_ddp.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_ddp.c
@@ -456,10 +456,9 @@ int i40e_ddp_flash(struct net_device *netdev, struct ethtool_flash *flash)
 		char profile_name[sizeof(I40E_DDP_PROFILE_PATH)
 				  + I40E_DDP_PROFILE_NAME_MAX];
 
-		profile_name[sizeof(profile_name) - 1] = 0;
-		strncpy(profile_name, I40E_DDP_PROFILE_PATH,
-			sizeof(profile_name) - 1);
-		strncat(profile_name, flash->data, I40E_DDP_PROFILE_NAME_MAX);
+		scnprintf(profile_name, sizeof(profile_name), "%s%s",
+			  I40E_DDP_PROFILE_PATH, flash->data);
+
 		/* Load DDP recipe. */
 		status = request_firmware(&ddp_config, profile_name,
 					  &netdev->dev);
-- 
2.41.0