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Message-ID: <20240305-strncpy-drivers-scsi-mpi3mr-mpi3mr_fw-c-v3-1-5b78a13ff984@google.com>
Date: Tue, 05 Mar 2024 23:34:36 +0000
From: Justin Stitt <justinstitt@...gle.com>
To: Sathya Prakash Veerichetty <sathya.prakash@...adcom.com>, Kashyap Desai <kashyap.desai@...adcom.com>, 
	Sumit Saxena <sumit.saxena@...adcom.com>, Sreekanth Reddy <sreekanth.reddy@...adcom.com>, 
	"James E.J. Bottomley" <jejb@...ux.ibm.com>, "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>, 
	Suganath Prabu Subramani <suganath-prabu.subramani@...adcom.com>, Ariel Elior <aelior@...vell.com>, 
	Manish Chopra <manishc@...vell.com>, "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, 
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>, Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>, 
	Saurav Kashyap <skashyap@...vell.com>, Javed Hasan <jhasan@...vell.com>, 
	GR-QLogic-Storage-Upstream@...vell.com, Nilesh Javali <njavali@...vell.com>, 
	Manish Rangankar <mrangankar@...vell.com>, Don Brace <don.brace@...rochip.com>
Cc: mpi3mr-linuxdrv.pdl@...adcom.com, linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org, 
	linux-hardening@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, 
	Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>, MPT-FusionLinux.pdl@...adcom.com, 
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, storagedev@...rochip.com, 
	Justin Stitt <justinstitt@...gle.com>
Subject: [PATCH v3 1/7] scsi: mpi3mr: replace deprecated strncpy with assignments

Really, there's no bug with the current code. Let's just ditch strncpy()
all together.

We can just copy the const strings instead of reserving room on the
stack.

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
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
Signed-off-by: Justin Stitt <justinstitt@...gle.com>
---
changes from v1->v2:
* use const char* assignments rather than strscpy (thanks Finn+Kees)
---
 drivers/scsi/mpi3mr/mpi3mr_fw.c | 10 +++++-----
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/scsi/mpi3mr/mpi3mr_fw.c b/drivers/scsi/mpi3mr/mpi3mr_fw.c
index 528f19f782f2..da0710cdac1d 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/mpi3mr/mpi3mr_fw.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/mpi3mr/mpi3mr_fw.c
@@ -3676,7 +3676,7 @@ static const struct {
  * mpi3mr_print_ioc_info - Display controller information
  * @mrioc: Adapter instance reference
  *
- * Display controller personalit, capability, supported
+ * Display controller personality, capability, supported
  * protocols etc.
  *
  * Return: Nothing
@@ -3685,20 +3685,20 @@ static void
 mpi3mr_print_ioc_info(struct mpi3mr_ioc *mrioc)
 {
 	int i = 0, bytes_written = 0;
-	char personality[16];
+	const char *personality;
 	char protocol[50] = {0};
 	char capabilities[100] = {0};
 	struct mpi3mr_compimg_ver *fwver = &mrioc->facts.fw_ver;
 
 	switch (mrioc->facts.personality) {
 	case MPI3_IOCFACTS_FLAGS_PERSONALITY_EHBA:
-		strncpy(personality, "Enhanced HBA", sizeof(personality));
+		personality = "Enhanced HBA";
 		break;
 	case MPI3_IOCFACTS_FLAGS_PERSONALITY_RAID_DDR:
-		strncpy(personality, "RAID", sizeof(personality));
+		personality = "RAID";
 		break;
 	default:
-		strncpy(personality, "Unknown", sizeof(personality));
+		personality = "Unknown";
 		break;
 	}
 

-- 
2.44.0.278.ge034bb2e1d-goog


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