Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | Date | Fri, 20 Oct 2023 19:39:02 +0000 | Subject | [PATCH v2] power: supply: surface_battery: replace deprecated strncpy with strscpy | From | Justin Stitt <> |
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strncpy() is deprecated for use on NUL-terminated destination strings [1] and as such we should prefer more robust and less ambiguous string interfaces.
We expect bat->name to be NUL-terminated based on its usage with strcmp():
power_supply_core.c: 445: return strcmp(psy->desc->name, name) == 0;
... and also by the manual `... - 1` for the length argument of the original strncpy() invocation.
Furthermore, no NUL-padding is needed as bat is zero-allocated before calling spwr_battery_init(): 826: bat = devm_kzalloc(&sdev->dev, sizeof(*bat), GFP_KERNEL); 827: if (!bat) 828: return -ENOMEM; 829: 830: spwr_battery_init(bat, sdev, p->registry, p->name);
... this means any further NUL-byte assignments (like the ones that strncpy() does) are redundant.
Considering the above, a suitable replacement is `strscpy` [2] due to the fact that it guarantees NUL-termination on the destination buffer without unnecessarily NUL-padding.
Let's also opt to use the more idiomatic strscpy() usage of: (dest, src, sizeof(dest)).
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@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Justin Stitt <justinstitt@google.com> --- Changes in v2: - fix subject line - Link to v1: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231020-strncpy-drivers-power-supply-surface_battery-c-v1-1-cabaea50e667@google.com --- Note: build-tested only.
Found with: $ rg "strncpy\(" --- drivers/power/supply/surface_battery.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/power/supply/surface_battery.c b/drivers/power/supply/surface_battery.c index 19d2f8834e56..196d290dc596 100644 --- a/drivers/power/supply/surface_battery.c +++ b/drivers/power/supply/surface_battery.c @@ -722,7 +722,7 @@ static void spwr_battery_init(struct spwr_battery_device *bat, struct ssam_devic struct ssam_event_registry registry, const char *name) { mutex_init(&bat->lock); - strncpy(bat->name, name, ARRAY_SIZE(bat->name) - 1); + strscpy(bat->name, name, sizeof(bat->name)); bat->sdev = sdev; --- base-commit: bb55d7f7f7445abcc8db50e6a65d4315e79f75c7 change-id: 20231020-strncpy-drivers-power-supply-surface_battery-c-b0c84b05ac28 Best regards, -- Justin Stitt <justinstitt@google.com>
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