linux-hardening - Re: [PATCH v2] scsi: elx: libefc: replace deprecated strncpy with strscpy

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Message-ID: <170087016627.1036733.4443783771400286080.b4-ty@oracle.com>
Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2023 21:54:18 -0500
From: "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>
To: James Smart <james.smart@...adcom.com>,
        Ram Vegesna <ram.vegesna@...adcom.com>,
        "James E.J. Bottomley" <jejb@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Justin Stitt <justinstitt@...gle.com>
Cc: "Martin K . Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>,
        linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org, target-devel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-hardening@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] scsi: elx: libefc: replace deprecated strncpy with strscpy_pad/memcpy

On Thu, 26 Oct 2023 01:53:13 +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.
> 
> To keep node->current_state_name and node->prev_state_name NUL-padded
> and NUL-terminated let's use strscpy_pad() as this implicitly provides
> both.
> 
> [...]

Applied to 6.8/scsi-queue, thanks!

[1/1] scsi: elx: libefc: replace deprecated strncpy with strscpy_pad/memcpy
      https://git.kernel.org/mkp/scsi/c/1057f44137c5

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Martin K. Petersen	Oracle Linux Engineering