[PATCH] null_blk: refactor deprecated strncpy

From: Justin Stitt
Date: Mon Sep 11 2023 - 18:46:25 EST


`strncpy` is deprecated for use on NUL-terminated destination strings [1].

We should favor a more robust and less ambiguous interface.

We know `nullb->disk_name` is NUL-terminated and we expect that
`disk->disk_name` also be NUL-terminated:
| snprintf(nullb->disk_name, sizeof(nullb->disk_name),
| "%s", config_item_name(&dev->group.cg_item));

It seems like NUL-padding may be required due to __assign_disk_name()
utilizing a memcpy as opposed to a `str*cpy` api.
| static inline void __assign_disk_name(char *name, struct gendisk *disk)
| {
| if (disk)
| memcpy(name, disk->disk_name, DISK_NAME_LEN);
| else
| memset(name, 0, DISK_NAME_LEN);
| }

This puzzles me as immediately after assigning the disk name we
go and print it with `__print_disk_name` which wraps `nullb_trace_disk_name()`.
| #define __print_disk_name(name) nullb_trace_disk_name(p, name)

This function obviously expects a NUL-terminated string.
| const char *nullb_trace_disk_name(struct trace_seq *p, char *name)
| {
| const char *ret = trace_seq_buffer_ptr(p);
|
| if (name && *name)
| trace_seq_printf(p, "disk=%s, ", name);
| trace_seq_putc(p, 0);
|
| return ret;
| }

I suspect that NUL-padding is _not_ needed but to be overly cautious
let's use `strscpy_pad` (although I strongly suspect that whole memcpy
thing should be changed).

Link: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/deprecated.html#strncpy-on-nul-terminated-strings [1]
Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/90
Cc: linux-hardening@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Justin Stitt <justinstitt@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
Note: build-tested
---
drivers/block/null_blk/main.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/block/null_blk/main.c b/drivers/block/null_blk/main.c
index 864013019d6b..994919c63f05 100644
--- a/drivers/block/null_blk/main.c
+++ b/drivers/block/null_blk/main.c
@@ -1938,7 +1938,7 @@ static int null_gendisk_register(struct nullb *nullb)
else
disk->fops = &null_bio_ops;
disk->private_data = nullb;
- strncpy(disk->disk_name, nullb->disk_name, DISK_NAME_LEN);
+ strscpy(disk->disk_name, nullb->disk_name, DISK_NAME_LEN);

if (nullb->dev->zoned) {
int ret = null_register_zoned_dev(nullb);

---
base-commit: 2dde18cd1d8fac735875f2e4987f11817cc0bc2c
change-id: 20230911-strncpy-drivers-block-null_blk-main-c-7349153e1c6a

Best regards,
--
Justin Stitt <justinstitt@xxxxxxxxxx>