[PATCH] i2c: sun6i-pw2i: Prefer strscpy over strlcpy

Len Baker len.baker at gmx.com
Tue Aug 17 09:58:59 PDT 2021


strlcpy() reads the entire source buffer first. This read may exceed the
destination size limit. This is both inefficient and can lead to linear
read overflows if a source string is not NUL-terminated. The safe
replacement is strscpy().

This is a previous step in the path to remove the strlcpy() function
entirely from the kernel [1].

[1] https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/89

Signed-off-by: Len Baker <len.baker at gmx.com>
---
 drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-sun6i-p2wi.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-sun6i-p2wi.c b/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-sun6i-p2wi.c
index 2f6f6468214d..9e3483f507ff 100644
--- a/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-sun6i-p2wi.c
+++ b/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-sun6i-p2wi.c
@@ -234,7 +234,7 @@ static int p2wi_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
 	if (IS_ERR(p2wi->regs))
 		return PTR_ERR(p2wi->regs);

-	strlcpy(p2wi->adapter.name, pdev->name, sizeof(p2wi->adapter.name));
+	strscpy(p2wi->adapter.name, pdev->name, sizeof(p2wi->adapter.name));
 	irq = platform_get_irq(pdev, 0);
 	if (irq < 0)
 		return irq;
--
2.25.1




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