[PATCH] firmware: ti_sci: refactor deprecated strncpy

Kees Cook keescook at chromium.org
Thu Sep 14 21:03:29 PDT 2023


On Wed, Sep 13, 2023 at 08:23:02PM +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.
> 
> It does not seem like `ver->firmware_description` requires NUL-padding
> (which is a behavior that strncpy provides) but if it does let's opt for
> `strscpy_pad()`.
> 
> 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>

Looks right to me.

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

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Kees Cook



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