[Nouveau] [PATCH] drm/nouveau/pm: refactor deprecated strncpy
Kees Cook
keescook at chromium.org
Fri Sep 15 04:59:26 UTC 2023
On Thu, Sep 14, 2023 at 10:17:08PM +0000, Justin Stitt wrote:
> `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.
>
> 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>
The "- 1" use in the original code is strong evidence for this being a
sane conversion. :)
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook at chromium.org>
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