linux-kernel - [PATCH] net: ena: replace deprecated strncpy with strscpy

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Message-ID: <20231005-strncpy-drivers-net-ethernet-amazon-ena-ena_netdev-c-v1-1-ba4879974160@google.com>
Date:   Thu, 05 Oct 2023 00:56:08 +0000
From:   Justin Stitt <justinstitt@...gle.com>
To:     Shay Agroskin <shayagr@...zon.com>,
        Arthur Kiyanovski <akiyano@...zon.com>,
        David Arinzon <darinzon@...zon.com>,
        Noam Dagan <ndagan@...zon.com>,
        Saeed Bishara <saeedb@...zon.com>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-hardening@...r.kernel.org,
        Justin Stitt <justinstitt@...gle.com>
Subject: [PATCH] net: ena: replace deprecated strncpy with strscpy

`strncpy` is deprecated for use on NUL-terminated destination strings
[1] and as such we should prefer more robust and less ambiguous string
interfaces.

NUL-padding is not necessary as host_info is initialized to
`ena_dev->host_attr.host_info` which is ultimately zero-initialized via
alloc_etherdev_mq().

A suitable replacement is `strscpy` [2] due to the fact that it
guarantees NUL-termination on the destination buffer without
unnecessarily NUL-padding.

Link: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/deprecated.html#strncpy-on-nul-terminated-strings [1]
Link: https://manpages.debian.org/testing/linux-manual-4.8/strscpy.9.en.html [2]
Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/90
Cc: linux-hardening@...r.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Justin Stitt <justinstitt@...gle.com>
---
Note: build-tested only.
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/amazon/ena/ena_netdev.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/amazon/ena/ena_netdev.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/amazon/ena/ena_netdev.c
index f955bde10cf9..3118a617c9b6 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/amazon/ena/ena_netdev.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/amazon/ena/ena_netdev.c
@@ -3276,8 +3276,8 @@ static void ena_config_host_info(struct ena_com_dev *ena_dev, struct pci_dev *pd
 	strscpy(host_info->kernel_ver_str, utsname()->version,
 		sizeof(host_info->kernel_ver_str) - 1);
 	host_info->os_dist = 0;
-	strncpy(host_info->os_dist_str, utsname()->release,
-		sizeof(host_info->os_dist_str) - 1);
+	strscpy(host_info->os_dist_str, utsname()->release,
+		sizeof(host_info->os_dist_str));
 	host_info->driver_version =
 		(DRV_MODULE_GEN_MAJOR) |
 		(DRV_MODULE_GEN_MINOR << ENA_ADMIN_HOST_INFO_MINOR_SHIFT) |

---
base-commit: cbf3a2cb156a2c911d8f38d8247814b4c07f49a2
change-id: 20231005-strncpy-drivers-net-ethernet-amazon-ena-ena_netdev-c-6c4804466aa7

Best regards,
--
Justin Stitt <justinstitt@...gle.com>