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SubjectRe: [PATCH] can: peak_pci: replace deprecated strncpy with strscpy
On Thu, Oct 05, 2023 at 12:05:35AM +0000, Justin Stitt wrote:
> `strncpy` is deprecated for use on NUL-terminated destination strings
> [1] and as such we should prefer more robust and less ambiguous string
> interfaces.
>
> NUL-padding is not required since card is already zero-initialized:
> | card = kzalloc(sizeof(*card), GFP_KERNEL);
>
> 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@vger.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Justin Stitt <justinstitt@google.com>

Yup, this looks like a standard direct replacement.

Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>

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Kees Cook

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