[PATCH net-next 1/3] net: dsa: microchip: copy string using strscpy

Simon Horman horms at kernel.org
Fri Oct 11 09:57:10 UTC 2024


Prior to this patch ksz_ptp_msg_irq_setup() uses snprintf() to copy
strings. It does so by passing strings as the format argument of
snprintf(). This appears to be safe, due to the absence of format
specifiers in the strings, which are declared within the same function.
But nonetheless GCC 14 warns about it:

.../ksz_ptp.c:1109:55: warning: format string is not a string literal (potentially insecure) [-Wformat-security]
 1109 |         snprintf(ptpmsg_irq->name, sizeof(ptpmsg_irq->name), name[n]);
      |                                                              ^~~~~~~
.../ksz_ptp.c:1109:55: note: treat the string as an argument to avoid this
 1109 |         snprintf(ptpmsg_irq->name, sizeof(ptpmsg_irq->name), name[n]);
      |                                                              ^
      |                                                              "%s",

As what we are really dealing with here is a string copy, it seems make
sense to use a function designed for this purpose. In this case null
padding is not required, so strscpy is appropriate. And as the
destination is an array, the 2-argument variant may be used.

Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms at kernel.org>
---
 drivers/net/dsa/microchip/ksz_ptp.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/dsa/microchip/ksz_ptp.c b/drivers/net/dsa/microchip/ksz_ptp.c
index 050f17c43ef6..22fb9ef4645c 100644
--- a/drivers/net/dsa/microchip/ksz_ptp.c
+++ b/drivers/net/dsa/microchip/ksz_ptp.c
@@ -1106,7 +1106,7 @@ static int ksz_ptp_msg_irq_setup(struct ksz_port *port, u8 n)
 	ptpmsg_irq->port = port;
 	ptpmsg_irq->ts_reg = ops->get_port_addr(port->num, ts_reg[n]);
 
-	snprintf(ptpmsg_irq->name, sizeof(ptpmsg_irq->name), name[n]);
+	strscpy(ptpmsg_irq->name, name[n]);
 
 	ptpmsg_irq->num = irq_find_mapping(port->ptpirq.domain, n);
 	if (ptpmsg_irq->num < 0)

-- 
2.45.2



More information about the dri-devel mailing list