On Fri, Sep 15, 2023 at 07:40:38AM -0500, Nishanth Menon wrote: > On 21:03-20230914, Kees Cook wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 13, 2023 at 08:23:02PM +0000, Justin Stitt wrote: > > > `strncpy` is deprecated for use on NUL-terminated destination strings [1]. > > > > > > We should prefer more robust and less ambiguous string interfaces. > > > > > > A suitable replacement is `strscpy` [2] due to the fact that it guarantees > > > NUL-termination on the destination buffer. > > > > > > It does not seem like `ver->firmware_description` requires NUL-padding > > > (which is a behavior that strncpy provides) but if it does let's opt for > > > `strscpy_pad()`. > > > > > > 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-harden...@vger.kernel.org > > > Signed-off-by: Justin Stitt <justinst...@google.com> > > > > Looks right to me. > > > > Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keesc...@chromium.org> > > Does this belong to stable as well? If so, please add appropriate stable > process.
No need. This is a refactoring only. :) -- Kees Cook
