Re: [PATCH v2] RISC-V: cpu: refactor deprecated strncpy

From: Palmer Dabbelt
Date: Wed Aug 02 2023 - 16:47:19 EST


On Wed, 02 Aug 2023 13:41:52 PDT (-0700), Palmer Dabbelt wrote:
> On Wed, 02 Aug 2023 13:36:03 PDT (-0700), keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>> On Wed, Aug 02, 2023 at 12:21:58AM +0000, Justin Stitt wrote:
>>> `strncpy` is deprecated for use on NUL-terminated destination strings [1].
>>>
>>> Favor not copying strings onto stack and instead use strings directly.
>>> This avoids hard-coding sizes and buffer lengths all together.
>>>
>>> Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/90
>>> Cc: linux-hardening@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>> Suggested-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> Signed-off-by: Justin Stitt <justinstitt@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> I like it! ;)
>>
>> Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Thanks, I just queue it up for fixes (might take a bit to build test,
> I'm a bit backed up).
>
> Reviewed-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> If you wanted to take it for some hardening thing, though -- otherwise
> it'll likely end up on my fixes later today.

Sorry this is for-next as it's not a fix, I was just looking at other
fixes. It's queued up aimed at for-next.