[PATCH] cgroup: Replace all non-returning strlcpy with strscpy

From: Azeem Shaikh
Date: Wed May 17 2023 - 10:49:27 EST


strlcpy() reads the entire source buffer first.
This read may exceed the destination size limit.
This is both inefficient and can lead to linear read
overflows if a source string is not NUL-terminated [1].
In an effort to remove strlcpy() completely [2], replace
strlcpy() here with strscpy().
No return values were used, so direct replacement is safe.

[1] https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/deprecated.html#strlcpy
[2] https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/89

Signed-off-by: Azeem Shaikh <azeemshaikh38@xxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/cgroup/cgroup-v1.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/cgroup/cgroup-v1.c b/kernel/cgroup/cgroup-v1.c
index aeef06c465ef..d55216c4cc2d 100644
--- a/kernel/cgroup/cgroup-v1.c
+++ b/kernel/cgroup/cgroup-v1.c
@@ -563,7 +563,7 @@ static ssize_t cgroup_release_agent_write(struct kernfs_open_file *of,
if (!cgrp)
return -ENODEV;
spin_lock(&release_agent_path_lock);
- strlcpy(cgrp->root->release_agent_path, strstrip(buf),
+ strscpy(cgrp->root->release_agent_path, strstrip(buf),
sizeof(cgrp->root->release_agent_path));
spin_unlock(&release_agent_path_lock);
cgroup_kn_unlock(of->kn);
@@ -797,7 +797,7 @@ void cgroup1_release_agent(struct work_struct *work)
goto out_free;

spin_lock(&release_agent_path_lock);
- strlcpy(agentbuf, cgrp->root->release_agent_path, PATH_MAX);
+ strscpy(agentbuf, cgrp->root->release_agent_path, PATH_MAX);
spin_unlock(&release_agent_path_lock);
if (!agentbuf[0])
goto out_free;