linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] crypto: hisilicon - fix strncpy warning with strlcpy

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Date:   Thu, 4 Jun 2020 13:39:18 +1000
From:   Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:     Zhangfei Gao <zhangfei.gao@...aro.org>
Cc:      Greg Kroah-Hartman  
        <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
         Jonathan Cameron  
        <Jonathan.Cameron@...wei.com>,
         wangzhou1  <wangzhou1@...ilicon.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org,
        kbuild-all@...ts.01.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] crypto: hisilicon - fix strncpy warning with strlcpy

On Thu, Jun 04, 2020 at 11:32:04AM +0800, Zhangfei Gao wrote:
> Use strlcpy to fix the warning
> warning: 'strncpy' specified bound 64 equals destination size
>          [-Wstringop-truncation]
> 
> Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@...el.com>
> Signed-off-by: Zhangfei Gao <zhangfei.gao@...aro.org>
> ---
>  drivers/crypto/hisilicon/qm.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/crypto/hisilicon/qm.c b/drivers/crypto/hisilicon/qm.c
> index f795fb5..224f3e2 100644
> --- a/drivers/crypto/hisilicon/qm.c
> +++ b/drivers/crypto/hisilicon/qm.c
> @@ -1574,7 +1574,7 @@ static int qm_alloc_uacce(struct hisi_qm *qm)
>  		.ops = &uacce_qm_ops,
>  	};
>  
> -	strncpy(interface.name, pdev->driver->name, sizeof(interface.name));
> +	strlcpy(interface.name, pdev->driver->name, sizeof(interface.name));

Should this even allow truncation? Perhaps it'd be better to fail
in case of an overrun?

Cheers,
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