linux-kernel - [PATCH] USB: gadget: Replace deprecated strncpy() with strscpy()

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Message-ID: <20250320165647.34859-2-thorsten.blum@linux.dev>
Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2025 17:56:44 +0100
From: Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@...ux.dev>
To: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@...aro.org>,
	Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@...ux.dev>,
	linux-hardening@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-usb@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] USB: gadget: Replace deprecated strncpy() with strscpy()

strncpy() is deprecated for NUL-terminated destination buffers; use
strscpy() instead. Since kzalloc() already zeroes out the destination
buffer, the potential NUL-padding by strncpy() is unnecessary. strscpy()
copies only the required characters and guarantees NUL-termination.

Since the destination buffer has a fixed length, strscpy() automatically
determines its size using sizeof() when the argument is omitted. This
makes an explicit sizeof() call unnecessary.

The source string is also NUL-terminated and meets the __must_be_cstr()
requirement of strscpy().

No functional changes intended.

Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/90
Cc: linux-hardening@...r.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@...ux.dev>
---
 drivers/usb/gadget/legacy/inode.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/usb/gadget/legacy/inode.c b/drivers/usb/gadget/legacy/inode.c
index b6a30d88a800..fcce84a726f2 100644
--- a/drivers/usb/gadget/legacy/inode.c
+++ b/drivers/usb/gadget/legacy/inode.c
@@ -1615,7 +1615,7 @@ static int activate_ep_files (struct dev_data *dev)
 		mutex_init(&data->lock);
 		init_waitqueue_head (&data->wait);

-		strncpy (data->name, ep->name, sizeof (data->name) - 1);
+		strscpy(data->name, ep->name);
 		refcount_set (&data->count, 1);
 		data->dev = dev;
 		get_dev (dev);