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Message-ID: <a34a7f0a-7cf6-4cda-9178-c756e25160fc@lunn.ch> Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2023 23:55:53 +0200 From: Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch> To: Justin Stitt <justinstitt@...gle.com> Cc: Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>, Russell King <linux@...linux.org.uk>, "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>, Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-hardening@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: mdio: replace deprecated strncpy with strscpy On Thu, Oct 12, 2023 at 09:43:02PM +0000, Justin Stitt wrote: > strncpy() is deprecated for use on NUL-terminated destination strings > [1] and as such we should prefer more robust and less ambiguous string > interfaces. > > We expect new_bus->id to be NUL-terminated but not NUL-padded based on > its prior assignment through snprintf: > | snprintf(new_bus->id, MII_BUS_ID_SIZE, "gpio-%x", bus_id); > > Due to this, 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> Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch> Andrew
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