[PATCH] init/version.c: Replace strlcpy with strscpy

From: Azeem Shaikh
Date: Wed Aug 30 2023 - 15:15:03 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().

Direct replacement is safe here since return value of -errno
is used to check for truncation instead of sizeof(dest).

[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>
---
init/version.c | 6 +++---
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/init/version.c b/init/version.c
index f117921811b4..94c96f6fbfe6 100644
--- a/init/version.c
+++ b/init/version.c
@@ -21,10 +21,10 @@ static int __init early_hostname(char *arg)
{
size_t bufsize = sizeof(init_uts_ns.name.nodename);
size_t maxlen = bufsize - 1;
- size_t arglen;
+ ssize_t arglen;

- arglen = strlcpy(init_uts_ns.name.nodename, arg, bufsize);
- if (arglen > maxlen) {
+ arglen = strscpy(init_uts_ns.name.nodename, arg, bufsize);
+ if (arglen < 0) {
pr_warn("hostname parameter exceeds %zd characters and will be truncated",
maxlen);
}
--
2.41.0.255.g8b1d071c50-goog