linux-hardening - [PATCH] scsi: target: core: replace deprecated strncpy with strscpy

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Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2024 22:07:50 +0000
From: Justin Stitt <justinstitt@...gle.com>
To: "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>
Cc: linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org, target-devel@...r.kernel.org, 
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-hardening@...r.kernel.org, 
	Justin Stitt <justinstitt@...gle.com>
Subject: [PATCH] scsi: target: core: 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 p_buf to be NUL-terminated based on the callsites using these
transport_dump_* methods because they use the destination buf with C-string
APIs like strlen() and sprintf().

		memset(buf, 0, VPD_TMP_BUF_SIZE);			\
		transport_dump_vpd_ident_type(vpd, buf, VPD_TMP_BUF_SIZE); \
		if (len + strlen(buf) >= PAGE_SIZE)			\
			break;						\
		len += sprintf(page+len, "%s", buf);			\

We also do not require the NUL-padding behavior that strncpy() provides
because we are manually setting the entire buffer to NUL, rendering any
future padding redundant.

Let's use strscpy() as it guarantees NUL-termination and doesn't
NUL-pad ( and isn't deprecated :>] ). Note that we can't use the more
idiomatic strscpy() usage of strscpy(dest, src, sizeof(dest)) because
the size of the destination buffer is not known to the compiler. We also
can't use the new 2-arg version of strscpy() from Commit e6584c3964f2f
("string: Allow 2-argument strscpy()")

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/target/target_core_transport.c | 8 ++++----
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/target/target_core_transport.c b/drivers/target/target_core_transport.c
index 73d0d6133ac8..3311eb87df6d 100644
--- a/drivers/target/target_core_transport.c
+++ b/drivers/target/target_core_transport.c
@@ -1112,7 +1112,7 @@ void transport_dump_vpd_proto_id(
 	}
 
 	if (p_buf)
-		strncpy(p_buf, buf, p_buf_len);
+		strscpy(p_buf, buf, p_buf_len);
 	else
 		pr_debug("%s", buf);
 }
@@ -1162,7 +1162,7 @@ int transport_dump_vpd_assoc(
 	}
 
 	if (p_buf)
-		strncpy(p_buf, buf, p_buf_len);
+		strscpy(p_buf, buf, p_buf_len);
 	else
 		pr_debug("%s", buf);
 
@@ -1222,7 +1222,7 @@ int transport_dump_vpd_ident_type(
 	if (p_buf) {
 		if (p_buf_len < strlen(buf)+1)
 			return -EINVAL;
-		strncpy(p_buf, buf, p_buf_len);
+		strscpy(p_buf, buf, p_buf_len);
 	} else {
 		pr_debug("%s", buf);
 	}
@@ -1276,7 +1276,7 @@ int transport_dump_vpd_ident(
 	}
 
 	if (p_buf)
-		strncpy(p_buf, buf, p_buf_len);
+		strscpy(p_buf, buf, p_buf_len);
 	else
 		pr_debug("%s", buf);
 

---
base-commit: bf3a69c6861ff4dc7892d895c87074af7bc1c400
change-id: 20240318-strncpy-drivers-target-target_core_transport-c-1950554ec04e

Best regards,
--
Justin Stitt <justinstitt@...gle.com>