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

From: Azeem Shaikh
Date: Tue May 30 2023 - 12:36:17 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/time/clocksource.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/time/clocksource.c b/kernel/time/clocksource.c
index 91836b727cef..88cbc1181b23 100644
--- a/kernel/time/clocksource.c
+++ b/kernel/time/clocksource.c
@@ -1480,7 +1480,7 @@ static int __init boot_override_clocksource(char* str)
{
mutex_lock(&clocksource_mutex);
if (str)
- strlcpy(override_name, str, sizeof(override_name));
+ strscpy(override_name, str, sizeof(override_name));
mutex_unlock(&clocksource_mutex);
return 1;
}