[PATCH] ath10k: replace deprecated strncpy with strtomem_pad

Jeff Johnson quic_jjohnson at quicinc.com
Tue Oct 24 16:25:35 PDT 2023


On 10/24/2023 2:43 PM, Kees Cook wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 24, 2023 at 07:11:51AM -0700, Jeff Johnson wrote:
>> On 10/24/2023 6:03 AM, Kalle Valo wrote:
>>> What about using just memcpy() to make it clear it's not really a proper
>>> string:
>>>
>>> arvif->u.ap.ssid_len = 4;
>>> memcpy(arvif->u.ap.ssid, "mesh", arvif->u.ap.ssid_len);
>>>
>>
>> In the "changed & BSS_CHANGED_SSID" case that comes soon after this we just
>> set the length and use memcpy without clearing the rest of the buffer, so
>> doing the same here, as you suggest, would be consistent.
> 
> Ah, please ignore my other email asking about memcpy safety -- I'm
> reading threads backwards.  :)
> 
And I'm replying without first reading through my mail queue



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