linux-kernel - [PATCH] unicode: replace strncpy() by strscpy()

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Message-ID: <20190527174733.GA29547@embeddedor>
Date:   Mon, 27 May 2019 12:47:33 -0500
From:   "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@...eddedor.com>
To:     Gabriel Krisman Bertazi <krisman@...labora.com>
Cc:     linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@...eddedor.com>
Subject: [PATCH] unicode: replace strncpy() by strscpy()

The strncpy() function is being deprecated. Replace it by the safer
strscpy() and fix the following Coverity warning:

"Calling strncpy with a maximum size argument of 12 bytes on destination
array version_string of size 12 bytes might leave the destination string
unterminated."

Notice that, unlike strncpy(), strscpy() always null-terminates the
destination string.

Addresses-Coverity-ID: 1445547 ("Buffer not null terminated")
Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@...eddedor.com>
---
 fs/unicode/utf8-core.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/fs/unicode/utf8-core.c b/fs/unicode/utf8-core.c
index 6afab4fdce90..a367041468cf 100644
--- a/fs/unicode/utf8-core.c
+++ b/fs/unicode/utf8-core.c
@@ -131,7 +131,7 @@ static int utf8_parse_version(const char *version, unsigned int *maj,
 		{0, NULL}
 	};
 
-	strncpy(version_string, version, sizeof(version_string));
+	strscpy(version_string, version, sizeof(version_string));
 
 	if (match_token(version_string, token, args) != 1)
 		return -EINVAL;
-- 
2.21.0