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Message-ID: <20231020-strncpy-drivers-power-supply-bq24190_charger-c-v1-1-e896223cb795@google.com> Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2023 18:14:47 +0000 From: Justin Stitt <justinstitt@...gle.com> To: Sebastian Reichel <sre@...nel.org> Cc: linux-pm@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-hardening@...r.kernel.org, Justin Stitt <justinstitt@...gle.com> Subject: [PATCH] power: supply: bq24190_charger: 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 bdi->model_name to be NUL-terminated based on its usage with sysfs_emit and format strings: val->strval is assigned to bdi->model_name in bq24190_charger_get_property(): 1186 | val->strval = bdi->model_name; ... then in power_supply_sysfs.c we use value.strval with a format string: 311 | ret = sysfs_emit(buf, "%s\n", value.strval); we assigned value.strval via: 285 | ret = power_supply_get_property(psy, psp, &value); ... which invokes psy->desc->get_property(): 1210 | return psy->desc->get_property(psy, psp, val); with bq24190_charger_get_property(): 1320 | static const struct power_supply_desc bq24190_charger_desc = { ... 1325 | .get_property = bq24190_charger_get_property, Moreover, no NUL-padding is required as bdi is zero-allocated in bq24190_charger.c: 1798 | bdi = devm_kzalloc(dev, sizeof(*bdi), GFP_KERNEL); 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. Found with: $ rg "strncpy\(" --- drivers/power/supply/bq24190_charger.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/power/supply/bq24190_charger.c b/drivers/power/supply/bq24190_charger.c index 3f99cb9590ba..1db290ee2591 100644 --- a/drivers/power/supply/bq24190_charger.c +++ b/drivers/power/supply/bq24190_charger.c @@ -1803,7 +1803,7 @@ static int bq24190_probe(struct i2c_client *client) bdi->client = client; bdi->dev = dev; - strncpy(bdi->model_name, id->name, I2C_NAME_SIZE); + strscpy(bdi->model_name, id->name, sizeof(bdi->model_name)); mutex_init(&bdi->f_reg_lock); bdi->charge_type = POWER_SUPPLY_CHARGE_TYPE_FAST; bdi->f_reg = 0; --- base-commit: bb55d7f7f7445abcc8db50e6a65d4315e79f75c7 change-id: 20231020-strncpy-drivers-power-supply-bq24190_charger-c-6bcc105fc23b Best regards, -- Justin Stitt <justinstitt@...gle.com>
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