Re: [PATCH v3] lib/string.c: implement stpcpy

[Joe Perches]

On Wed, 2020-08-26 at 16:38 -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 27, 2020 at 07:59:45AM +0900, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
[]
> > OK, then stpcpy(), strcpy() and sprintf()
> > have the same level of unsafety.
> 
> Yes. And even snprintf() is dangerous because its return value is how
> much it WOULD have written, which when (commonly) used as an offset for
> further pointer writes, causes OOB writes too. :(
> https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/105
> 
> > strcpy() is used everywhere.
> 
> Yes. It's very frustrating, but it's not an excuse to continue
> using it nor introducing more bad APIs.
> 
> $ git grep '\bstrcpy\b' | wc -l
> 2212
> $ git grep '\bstrncpy\b' | wc -l
> 751
> $ git grep '\bstrlcpy\b' | wc -l
> 1712
> 
> $ git grep '\bstrscpy\b' | wc -l
> 1066
> 
> https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/deprecated.html#strcpy
> https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/88
> 
> https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/deprecated.html#strncpy-on-nul-terminated-strings
> https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/89
> 
> https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/deprecated.html#strlcpy
> https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/90
> 
> We have no way right now to block the addition of deprecated API usage,
> which makes ever catching up on this replacement very challenging.

These could be added to checkpatch's deprecated_api test.
---
 scripts/checkpatch.pl | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index 149518d2a6a7..f9ccb2a63a95 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -605,6 +605,9 @@ foreach my $entry (@mode_permission_funcs) {
 $mode_perms_search = "(?:${mode_perms_search})";
 
 our %deprecated_apis = (
+	"strcpy"				=> "strscpy",
+	"strncpy"				=> "strscpy",
+	"strlcpy"				=> "strscpy",
 	"synchronize_rcu_bh"			=> "synchronize_rcu",
 	"synchronize_rcu_bh_expedited"		=> "synchronize_rcu_expedited",
 	"call_rcu_bh"				=> "call_rcu",