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Message-ID: <20240220082444.GH10170@google.com>
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2024 08:24:44 +0000
From: Lee Jones <lee@...nel.org>
To: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
Cc: James Bottomley <jejb@...ux.ibm.com>,
Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-hardening@...r.kernel.org,
Finn Thain <fthain@...ux-m68k.org>,
Michael Schmitz <schmitzmic@...il.com>,
"Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>,
drew@...orado.edu, Tnx to <Thomas_Roesch@...maus.de>,
linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 03/10] scsi: NCR5380: Replace snprintf() with the safer
scnprintf() variant
On Mon, 19 Feb 2024, Kees Cook wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 19, 2024 at 03:23:12PM +0000, Lee Jones wrote:
> > Adding this to checkpatch is a good idea.
>
> Yeah, please do. You can look at the "strncpy -> strscpy" check that is
> already in there for an example.
>
> >
> > What if we also take Kees's suggestion and hit all of these found in
> > SCSI in one patch to keep the churn down to a minimum?
>
> We don't have to focus on SCSI even. At the end of the next -rc1, I can
When I've conducted similar work before, I've taken it subsystem by
subsystem. However, if you're happy to co-ordinate with the big penguin
et al. and get them all with a treewide patch, please go for it.
> send a tree-wide patch (from Coccinelle) that'll convert all snprintf()
> uses that don't check a return value into scnprintf(). For example,
> this seems to do the trick:
>
> @scnprintf depends on !(file in "tools") && !(file in "samples")@
> @@
>
> -snprintf
> +scnprintf
> (...);
>
>
> Results in:
>
> 2252 files changed, 4795 insertions(+), 4795 deletions(-)
Super!
--
Lee Jones [李琼斯]
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