Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 4 Oct 2023 19:58:39 -0700 | From | Kees Cook <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] can: peak_pci: replace deprecated strncpy with strscpy |
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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>
-- Kees Cook
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