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Justin Stitt
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strncpy() is deprecated for use on NUL-terminated destination strings
[1] and as such we should prefer more robust and less ambiguous string
interfaces.
We expect chinfo.name to be NUL-terminated based on its use with format
strings and sprintf:
rpmsg/rpmsg_char.c
165: dev_err(dev, "failed to open %s\n", eptdev->chinfo.name);
368: return sprintf(buf, "%s\n", eptdev->chinfo.name);
... and with strcmp():
| static struct rpmsg_endpoint *qcom_glink_create_ept(struct rpmsg_device *rpdev,
| rpmsg_rx_cb_t cb,
| void *priv,
| struct rpmsg_channel_info
| chinfo)
| ...
| const char *name = chinfo.name;
| ...
| if (!strcmp(channel->name, name))
Since chinfo is initialized as such (just above the strscpy()):
| struct rpmsg_channel_info chinfo = {
| .src = rpwwan->rpdev->src,
| .dst = RPMSG_ADDR_ANY,
| };
... we know other members are zero-initialized. This means no
NUL-padding is required (as any NUL-byte assignments are redundant).
Considering the above, a suitable replacement is `strscpy` due to the
fact that it guarantees NUL-termination on the destination buffer
without unnecessarily NUL-padding.
Link: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/deprecated.html#strncpy-on-nul-terminated-strings [1]
Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/90
Signed-off-by: Justin Stitt <justinstitt@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231019-strncpy-drivers-net-wwan-rpmsg_wwan_ctrl-c-v2-1-ecf9b5a39430@google.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
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