netdev - Re: [PATCH v2 0/4] net: Use strlcpy() for ethtool::get

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Date:   Sun, 4 Mar 2018 16:40:54 +0100
From:   Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
To:     Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, david.laight@...lab.com,
        Vivien Didelot <vivien.didelot@...oirfairelinux.com>,
        open list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, opendmb@...il.com,
        davem@...emloft.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/4] net: Use strlcpy() for ethtool::get_strings

On Fri, Mar 02, 2018 at 03:08:35PM -0800, Florian Fainelli wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> After turning on KASAN on one of my systems, I started getting lots of out of
> bounds errors while fetching a given port's statistics, and indeed using
> memcpy() is unsafe for copying strings which have not been declared as an array
> of ETH_GSTRING_LEN bytes, so let's use strlcpy() instead. This allows the best
> of both worlds: we still keep the efficient memory usage of variably sized
> strings, but we don't copy more than we need to.

Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>

    Andrew