linux-hardening - Re: [PATCH] mm/kmemleak: Replace strncpy() with strscpy()

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Message-ID: <ZpAfuh3rX7dysg8O@arm.com>
Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2024 19:08:58 +0100
From: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>
To: Kees Cook <kees@...nel.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-hardening@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm/kmemleak: Replace strncpy() with strscpy()

On Tue, Jul 09, 2024 at 05:13:08PM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> Replace the depreciated[1] strncpy() calls with strscpy(). Uses of
> object->comm do not depend on the padding side-effect.
> 
> Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/90 [1]
> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <kees@...nel.org>

Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>

(usually Andrew picks the kmemleak patches up)