[PATCH] wifi: mt76: Replace strlcpy with strscpy

Kalle Valo kvalo at kernel.org
Thu Jul 27 09:00:21 PDT 2023


Kees Cook <keescook at chromium.org> writes:

> On Mon, 03 Jul 2023 18:12:56 +0000, Azeem Shaikh wrote:
>> 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 [1].
>> In an effort to remove strlcpy() completely [2], replace
>> strlcpy() here with strscpy().
>> 
>> [...]
>
> Applied, thanks!
>
> [1/1] wifi: mt76: Replace strlcpy with strscpy
>       https://git.kernel.org/kees/c/535c78cbc0c4

Why did you take this? mt76 is in active development so risk of
conflicts is high.

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