[PATCH] PM: hibernate: replace deprecated strncpy with strscpy

From: Justin Stitt
Date: Mon Apr 29 2024 - 16:50:45 EST


strncpy() is deprecated for use on NUL-terminated destination strings
[1] and as such we should prefer more robust and less ambiguous string
interfaces.

This kernel config option is simply assigned with the resume_file
buffer. It should be NUL-terminated but not necessarily NUL-padded as
per its further usage with other string apis:
| static int __init find_resume_device(void)
| {
| if (!strlen(resume_file))
| return -ENOENT;
|
| pm_pr_dbg("Checking hibernation image partition %s\n", resume_file);

Use strscpy [2] as it guarantees NUL-termination on the destination
buffer. Specifically, use the new 2-argument version of strscpy()
introduced in Commit e6584c3964f2f ("string: Allow 2-argument
strscpy()").

Link: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/deprecated.html#strncpy-on-nul-terminated-strings [1]
Link: https://manpages.debian.org/testing/linux-manual-4.8/strscpy.9.en.html [2]
Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/90
Cc: linux-hardening@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Justin Stitt <justinstitt@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
Note: build-tested only.

Found with: $ rg "strncpy\("
---
kernel/power/hibernate.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/power/hibernate.c b/kernel/power/hibernate.c
index 43b1a82e800c..0a213f69a9e4 100644
--- a/kernel/power/hibernate.c
+++ b/kernel/power/hibernate.c
@@ -1361,7 +1361,7 @@ static int __init resume_setup(char *str)
if (noresume)
return 1;

- strncpy(resume_file, str, 255);
+ strscpy(resume_file, str);
return 1;
}


---
base-commit: d7ad0581567927c433918bb5f06f3d29f89807d3
change-id: 20240412-strncpy-kernel-power-hibernate-c-77985696443c

Best regards,
--
Justin Stitt <justinstitt@xxxxxxxxxx>