linux-hardening - Re: [PATCH 03/10] scsi: NCR5380: Replace snprintf() with the safer scnprintf() variant

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Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2024 08:24:44 +0000
From: Lee Jones <lee@...nel.org>
To: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
Cc: James Bottomley <jejb@...ux.ibm.com>,
	Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-hardening@...r.kernel.org,
	Finn Thain <fthain@...ux-m68k.org>,
	Michael Schmitz <schmitzmic@...il.com>,
	"Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>,
	drew@...orado.edu, Tnx to <Thomas_Roesch@...maus.de>,
	linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 03/10] scsi: NCR5380: Replace snprintf() with the safer
 scnprintf() variant

On Mon, 19 Feb 2024, Kees Cook wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 19, 2024 at 03:23:12PM +0000, Lee Jones wrote:
> > Adding this to checkpatch is a good idea.
> 
> Yeah, please do. You can look at the "strncpy -> strscpy" check that is
> already in there for an example.
> 
> > 
> > What if we also take Kees's suggestion and hit all of these found in
> > SCSI in one patch to keep the churn down to a minimum?
> 
> We don't have to focus on SCSI even. At the end of the next -rc1, I can

When I've conducted similar work before, I've taken it subsystem by
subsystem.  However, if you're happy to co-ordinate with the big penguin
et al. and get them all with a treewide patch, please go for it.

> send a tree-wide patch (from Coccinelle) that'll convert all snprintf()
> uses that don't check a return value into scnprintf(). For example,
> this seems to do the trick:
> 
> @scnprintf depends on !(file in "tools") && !(file in "samples")@
> @@
> 
> -snprintf
> +scnprintf
>  (...);
> 
> 
> Results in:
> 
>  2252 files changed, 4795 insertions(+), 4795 deletions(-)

Super!

-- 
Lee Jones [李琼斯]