[PATCH] drm/i915: refactor deprecated strncpy
Justin Stitt
justinstitt at google.com
Thu Sep 14 21:14:07 UTC 2023
`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 without unnecessarily NUL-padding.
`ctx` is zero allocated and as such strncpy's NUL-padding behavior was
strictly a performance hit which should now be resolved. It should be
noted, however, that performance is not critical in these selftests,
especially by these margins.
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 at vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Justin Stitt <justinstitt at google.com>
---
drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gem/selftests/mock_context.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gem/selftests/mock_context.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gem/selftests/mock_context.c
index 8ac6726ec16b..025b9c773b93 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gem/selftests/mock_context.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gem/selftests/mock_context.c
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ mock_context(struct drm_i915_private *i915,
if (name) {
struct i915_ppgtt *ppgtt;
- strncpy(ctx->name, name, sizeof(ctx->name) - 1);
+ strscpy(ctx->name, name, sizeof(ctx->name) - 1);
ppgtt = mock_ppgtt(i915, name);
if (!ppgtt)
---
base-commit: 3669558bdf354cd352be955ef2764cde6a9bf5ec
change-id: 20230914-strncpy-drivers-gpu-drm-i915-gem-selftests-mock_context-c-980c8ecc9142
Best regards,
--
Justin Stitt <justinstitt at google.com>
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