[PATCH] drm/etnaviv: refactor deprecated strncpy

Justin Stitt justinstitt at google.com
Thu Sep 14 18:20:01 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.

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
Cc: Bo YU <tsu.yubo at gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Justin Stitt <justinstitt at google.com>
---
Similar to [1] which was never picked up. Let's prefer strscpy to strlcpy, though

[1]: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20190328080918.9290-1-tsu.yubo@gmail.com/
---
 drivers/gpu/drm/etnaviv/etnaviv_perfmon.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/etnaviv/etnaviv_perfmon.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/etnaviv/etnaviv_perfmon.c
index bafdfe49c1d8..9e7bebcf24eb 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/etnaviv/etnaviv_perfmon.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/etnaviv/etnaviv_perfmon.c
@@ -511,7 +511,7 @@ int etnaviv_pm_query_dom(struct etnaviv_gpu *gpu,
 
 	domain->id = domain->iter;
 	domain->nr_signals = dom->nr_signals;
-	strncpy(domain->name, dom->name, sizeof(domain->name));
+	strscpy(domain->name, dom->name, sizeof(domain->name));
 
 	domain->iter++;
 	if (domain->iter == nr_domains)
@@ -540,7 +540,7 @@ int etnaviv_pm_query_sig(struct etnaviv_gpu *gpu,
 	sig = &dom->signal[signal->iter];
 
 	signal->id = signal->iter;
-	strncpy(signal->name, sig->name, sizeof(signal->name));
+	strscpy(signal->name, sig->name, sizeof(signal->name));
 
 	signal->iter++;
 	if (signal->iter == dom->nr_signals)

---
base-commit: 3669558bdf354cd352be955ef2764cde6a9bf5ec
change-id: 20230914-strncpy-drivers-gpu-drm-etnaviv-etnaviv_perfmon-c-dd095491dfde

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



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