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Message-ID: <20231017190411.2199743-8-jacob.e.keller@intel.com> Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2023 12:04:09 -0700 From: Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@...el.com> To: netdev@...r.kernel.org, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org> Cc: Justin Stitt <justinstitt@...gle.com>, linux-hardening@...r.kernel.org, Pucha Himasekhar Reddy <himasekharx.reddy.pucha@...el.com>, Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@...el.com> Subject: [PATCH net-next 7/9] igb: replace deprecated strncpy with strscpy From: Justin Stitt <justinstitt@...gle.com> `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 see that netdev->name is expected to be NUL-terminated based on its usage with format strings: | sprintf(q_vector->name, "%s-TxRx-%u", netdev->name, | q_vector->rx.ring->queue_index); Furthermore, NUL-padding is not required as netdev is already zero-allocated: | netdev = alloc_etherdev_mq(sizeof(struct igb_adapter), | IGB_MAX_TX_QUEUES); ... alloc_etherdev_mq() -> alloc_etherdev_mqs() -> alloc_netdev_mqs() ... | p = kvzalloc(alloc_size, GFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT | __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL); Considering the above, 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> Tested-by: Pucha Himasekhar Reddy <himasekharx.reddy.pucha@...el.com> (A Contingent worker at Intel) Signed-off-by: Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@...el.com> --- drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb_main.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb_main.c index fdadf3e84f59..db54453e1946 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb_main.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb_main.c @@ -3263,7 +3263,7 @@ static int igb_probe(struct pci_dev *pdev, const struct pci_device_id *ent) igb_set_ethtool_ops(netdev); netdev->watchdog_timeo = 5 * HZ; - strncpy(netdev->name, pci_name(pdev), sizeof(netdev->name) - 1); + strscpy(netdev->name, pci_name(pdev), sizeof(netdev->name)); netdev->mem_start = pci_resource_start(pdev, 0); netdev->mem_end = pci_resource_end(pdev, 0); -- 2.41.0
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