On Mon, Mar 23, 2026 at 10:25 PM Kees Cook <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Mar 23, 2026 at 09:05:39PM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> > While the original strncpy() would have copied a full 16 bytes from an
> > overlong name (producing an unterminated field that the syscall rejects),
> > but this wasn't a reachable state. This replacement will instead always
> > truncate to 15 bytes and keeps the NUL terminator, which should have no
> > behavioral changes with the present code and avoids potential issues
> > with future over-long string literals.
>
> Hm, I got a failure report, but it *seems* unrelated? But nothing else
> fails that way recently, so I will try a v2 with the "unterminated at 16
> bytes" behavior restored and see if it passes...
>
> test_progs_no_alu32-x86_64-llvm-21:
> https://github.com/kernel-patches/bpf/actions/runs/23472955268/job/68300440546

Don't fix what is not broken.

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