[Nouveau] [PATCH] drm/nouveau/pm: refactor deprecated strncpy

[Lyude Paul]

Nice catch!

Reviewed-by: Lyude Paul <lyude at redhat.com>

Will push in just a moment

On Thu, 2023-09-14 at 21:59 -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> 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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Cheers,
 Lyude Paul (she/her)
 Software Engineer at Red Hat