[PATCH] habanalabs/gaudi: refactor deprecated strncpy

Justin Stitt justinstitt at google.com
Thu Aug 24 20:41:26 UTC 2023


`strncpy` is deprecated for use on NUL-terminated destination strings [1].

A suitable replacement is `strscpy` [2] due to the fact that it
guarantees NUL-termination on its destination buffer argument which is
_not_ the case for `strncpy`!

Link: 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 at vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Justin Stitt <justinstitt at google.com>
---
Note: build-tested only
---
 drivers/accel/habanalabs/gaudi/gaudi.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/accel/habanalabs/gaudi/gaudi.c b/drivers/accel/habanalabs/gaudi/gaudi.c
index 056e2ef44afb..f175456cdef0 100644
--- a/drivers/accel/habanalabs/gaudi/gaudi.c
+++ b/drivers/accel/habanalabs/gaudi/gaudi.c
@@ -660,7 +660,7 @@ static int gaudi_set_fixed_properties(struct hl_device *hdev)
 	prop->pcie_dbi_base_address = mmPCIE_DBI_BASE;
 	prop->pcie_aux_dbi_reg_addr = CFG_BASE + mmPCIE_AUX_DBI;
 
-	strncpy(prop->cpucp_info.card_name, GAUDI_DEFAULT_CARD_NAME,
+	strscpy(prop->cpucp_info.card_name, GAUDI_DEFAULT_CARD_NAME,
 					CARD_NAME_MAX_LEN);
 
 	prop->max_pending_cs = GAUDI_MAX_PENDING_CS;
@@ -8000,7 +8000,7 @@ static int gaudi_cpucp_info_get(struct hl_device *hdev)
 		return rc;
 
 	if (!strlen(prop->cpucp_info.card_name))
-		strncpy(prop->cpucp_info.card_name, GAUDI_DEFAULT_CARD_NAME,
+		strscpy(prop->cpucp_info.card_name, GAUDI_DEFAULT_CARD_NAME,
 				CARD_NAME_MAX_LEN);
 
 	hdev->card_type = le32_to_cpu(hdev->asic_prop.cpucp_info.card_type);

---
base-commit: f9604036a3fb6149badf346994b46b03f9292db7
change-id: 20230824-strncpy-drivers-accel-habanalabs-gaudi-gaudi-c-f0b5814ced38

Best regards,
--
Justin Stitt <justinstitt at google.com>



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