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Message-ID: <202307121653.4A9C69C655@keescook>
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2023 16:54:26 -0700
From: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
To: Azeem Shaikh <azeemshaikh38@...il.com>
Cc: Felix Fietkau <nbd@....name>,
Lorenzo Bianconi <lorenzo@...nel.org>,
Ryder Lee <ryder.lee@...iatek.com>,
linux-hardening@...r.kernel.org,
Shayne Chen <shayne.chen@...iatek.com>,
Sean Wang <sean.wang@...iatek.com>,
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Matthias Brugger <matthias.bgg@...il.com>,
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<angelogioacchino.delregno@...labora.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] wifi: mt76: Replace strlcpy with strscpy
On Mon, Jul 03, 2023 at 06:12:56PM +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().
>
> Direct replacement is safe here since DEV_ASSIGN is only used by
> TRACE macros and the return values are ignored.
>
> [1] https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/deprecated.html#strlcpy
> [2] https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/89
>
> Signed-off-by: Azeem Shaikh <azeemshaikh38@...il.com>
Looks good -- thing is using return values from the macros.
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
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Kees Cook
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