[PATCH] soc: fsl: qe: Replace all non-returning strlcpy with strscpy

Azeem Shaikh azeemshaikh38 at gmail.com
Sun Jul 9 19:35:46 PDT 2023


On Tue, May 23, 2023 at 1:20 PM Kees Cook <keescook at chromium.org> wrote:
>
> On Tue, May 23, 2023 at 02:14:25AM +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().
> > No return values were used, so direct replacement is safe.
> >
> > [1] https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/deprecated.html#strlcpy
> > [2] https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/89
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Azeem Shaikh <azeemshaikh38 at gmail.com>
>
> Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook at chromium.org>
>

Friendly ping on this.



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