Re: [PATCH v4 1/4] lib/ucs2_string: Add UCS-2 strlcpy function

[Maximilian Luz]

On 5/30/23 17:25, Kees Cook wrote:
> On Mon, May 29, 2023 at 01:03:48AM +0200, Maximilian Luz wrote:
> > Add a ucs2_strlcpy() function for UCS-2 strings. The behavior is
> > equivalent to the standard strlcpy() function, just for 16-bit character
> > UCS-2 strings.
>
> Eek, no. strlcpy() is dangerous in multiple ways[1]. Please implement
> strscpy() (i.e. use strnlen(), negative error on truncation, etc).

Right, make sense, thanks. Somehow I missed that the kernel has a better
function than the C stdlib for that...

> Additionally, it'd be nice of the ucs2 helpers here also implemented the
> rest of the CONFIG_FORTIFY_SOURCE mitigations (i.e. checking for source
> and destination buffer size overflows at compile-time and run-time with
> __builtin_object_size() and __builtin_dynamoc_object_size() respectively).

I can certainly try that, but I think this might be better suited for a
follow-up series, given that we then should also add those to the other
helpers.

Regards,
Max