netdev - Re: [PATCH] staging: qlge: Replace strncpy with strscpy

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Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2023 09:49:14 +0300
From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...aro.org>
To: Ricardo Lopes <ricardoapl.dev@...il.com>
Cc: manishc@...vell.com, GR-Linux-NIC-Dev@...vell.com, coiby.xu@...il.com,
	gregkh@...uxfoundation.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-staging@...ts.linux.dev, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: qlge: Replace strncpy with strscpy

On Fri, Oct 06, 2023 at 09:42:41AM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 05, 2023 at 08:14:55PM +0100, Ricardo Lopes wrote:
> > Avoid read overflows and other misbehavior due to missing termination.
> > 
> 
> There aren't any read overflows in the current code.
> 

So when you're reviewing these to look for read overflows, a string
literal isn't going to overflow.  So that makes the last two obvious.
But for the first one you have to review the caller qlge_gen_reg_dump()
and the last parameter passed to qlge_build_coredump_seg_header() is
always a string literal so that's obvious too.

It's not really that much work to check for this.

regards,
dan carpenter