[PATCH] drm/radeon: Replace all non-returning strlcpy with strscpy
Deucher, Alexander
Alexander.Deucher at amd.com
Mon May 22 20:34:54 UTC 2023
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kees Cook <keescook at chromium.org>
> Sent: Monday, May 22, 2023 4:15 PM
> To: Azeem Shaikh <azeemshaikh38 at gmail.com>
> Cc: Deucher, Alexander <Alexander.Deucher at amd.com>; Koenig, Christian
> <Christian.Koenig at amd.com>; Pan, Xinhui <Xinhui.Pan at amd.com>; linux-
> hardening at vger.kernel.org; amd-gfx at lists.freedesktop.org; linux-
> kernel at vger.kernel.org; David Airlie <airlied at gmail.com>; Daniel Vetter
> <daniel at ffwll.ch>; dri-devel at lists.freedesktop.org
> Subject: Re: [PATCH] drm/radeon: Replace all non-returning strlcpy with
> strscpy
>
> On Mon, May 22, 2023 at 03:50:32PM +0000, Azeem Shaikh wrote:
> > strlcpy() reads the entire source buffer first.
> > This read may exceed the destination size limit.
> > This is both inefficient and can lead to linear read overflows if a
> > source string is not NUL-terminated [1].
> > In an effort to remove strlcpy() completely [2], replace
> > strlcpy() here with strscpy().
> > No return values were used, so direct replacement is safe.
> >
> > [1]
> >
> https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/deprecated.html#strlcpy
> > [2] https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/89
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Azeem Shaikh <azeemshaikh38 at gmail.com>
>
> Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook at chromium.org>
>
Acked-by: Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher at amd.com>
Ack to take this through whatever tree makes sense if you are trying to batch all of these up. Otherwise, I can pick them up.
Alex
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