[PATCH] wifi: mt76: Replace strlcpy with strscpy
Azeem Shaikh
azeemshaikh38 at gmail.com
Mon Jul 17 21:38:37 PDT 2023
On Wed, Jul 12, 2023 at 7:54 PM Kees Cook <keescook at chromium.org> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Jul 03, 2023 at 06:12:56PM +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().
> >
> > Direct replacement is safe here since DEV_ASSIGN is only used by
> > TRACE macros and the return values are ignored.
> >
> > [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>
>
> Looks good -- thing is using return values from the macros.
Just to confirm, you mean *not* using return values from the macros?
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