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Message-Id: <168548796310.1350188.10745694845862015530.b4-ty@chromium.org>
Date:   Tue, 30 May 2023 16:06:06 -0700
From:   Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
To:     parthiban.veerasooran@...rochip.com, christian.gromm@...rochip.com,
        azeemshaikh38@...il.com
Cc:     Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>, linux-hardening@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: most: Replace all non-returning strlcpy with strscpy

On Tue, 23 May 2023 02:16:40 +0000, Azeem Shaikh wrote:
> strlcpy() reads the entire source buffer first.
> This read may exceed the destination size limit.
> This is both inefficient and can lead to linear read
> overflows if a source string is not NUL-terminated [1].
> In an effort to remove strlcpy() completely [2], replace
> strlcpy() here with strscpy().
> No return values were used, so direct replacement is safe.
> 
> [...]

Applied to for-next/hardening, thanks!

[1/1] staging: most: Replace all non-returning strlcpy with strscpy
      https://git.kernel.org/kees/c/32c7fb186c1b

-- 
Kees Cook

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