linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.10 02/14] crypto: lrw,xts

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Date:   Mon, 11 Sep 2023 11:41:18 +0200
From:   Pavel Machek <pavel@...x.de>
To:     Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org,
        Azeem Shaikh <azeemshaikh38@...il.com>,
        Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
        Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>, davem@...emloft.net,
        linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.10 02/14] crypto: lrw,xts - Replace strlcpy
 with strscpy

On Fri 2023-09-08 14:19:49, Sasha Levin wrote:
> From: Azeem Shaikh <azeemshaikh38@...il.com>
> 
> [ Upstream commit babb80b3ecc6f40c962e13c654ebcd27f25ee327 ]
> 
> 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 return value of -errno
> is used to check for truncation instead of sizeof(dest).

We don't need this in stable, do we?

BR,
							Pavel
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