Re: [PATCH linux-next] staging: ks7010: use strscpy() to instead of strncpy()

[Dan Carpenter]

On Thu, Dec 29, 2022 at 12:45:10PM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 26, 2022 at 07:03:24PM +0800, yang.yang29@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > From: Xu Panda <xu.panda@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > 
> > The implementation of strscpy() is more robust and safer.
> > That's now the recommended way to copy NUL-terminated strings.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Xu Panda <xu.panda@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Yang Yang <yang.yang29@xxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >  drivers/staging/ks7010/ks_wlan_net.c | 3 +--
> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/drivers/staging/ks7010/ks_wlan_net.c b/drivers/staging/ks7010/ks_wlan_net.c
> > index 044c807ca022..e03c87f0bfe7 100644
> > --- a/drivers/staging/ks7010/ks_wlan_net.c
> > +++ b/drivers/staging/ks7010/ks_wlan_net.c
> > @@ -382,8 +382,7 @@ static int ks_wlan_get_nick(struct net_device *dev,
> >  		return -EPERM;
> > 
> >  	/* for SLEEP MODE */
> > -	strncpy(extra, priv->nick, 16);
> > -	extra[16] = '\0';
> > +	strscpy(extra, priv->nick, 17);
> 
> I think this code is a buffer overflow.  This is an implementation of
> SIOCGIWNICKN.

Huh...  Maybe I'm wrong.  I looked at a couple other implementations of
SIOCGIWNICKN and they all seem to assume a 17 character buffer...

Let me look deeper.  I guess for now assume I am wrong.

regards,
dan carpenter