Re: [PATCH 0/6] lib: Add safe string funtions

[Kees Cook]

On Mon, Feb 18, 2019 at 3:24 PM Tobin C. Harding <tobin@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> During your talk at LCA you mentioned that we could do with a couple
> more safe string functions.  One to zero the tail of the destination
> buffer after call to strscpy() and also the self explanatory
> strscpy_from_user().

Thanks for jumping in with this! :)

> I couldn't work out if this is a false positive or not?  Does the new
> config option CONFIG_TEST_STRING need more documentation?  I don't see
> where extra docs should be added and it seems self explanatory as is.

Usually this just means the help string in Kconfig is "too short".
Sometimes this is a false positive -- really up to you if you think it
needs more. :)

On to individual patches...

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Kees Cook