[PATCH] dax: refactor deprecated strncpy

From: Justin Stitt
Date: Tue Sep 12 2023 - 21:10:30 EST


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

We should prefer more robust and less ambiguous string interfaces.

`dax_id->dev_name` is expected to be NUL-terminated and has been zero-allocated.

A suitable replacement is `strscpy` [2] due to the fact that it
guarantees NUL-termination on the destination buffer. Moreover, due to
`dax_id` being zero-allocated the padding behavior of `strncpy` is not
needed and a simple 1:1 replacement of strncpy -> strscpy should
suffice.

Link: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/deprecated.html#strncpy-on-nul-terminated-strings [1]
Link: https://manpages.debian.org/testing/linux-manual-4.8/strscpy.9.en.html [2]
Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/90
Cc: linux-hardening@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Justin Stitt <justinstitt@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
Note: build-tested only.
---
drivers/dax/bus.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/dax/bus.c b/drivers/dax/bus.c
index 0ee96e6fc426..1659b787b65f 100644
--- a/drivers/dax/bus.c
+++ b/drivers/dax/bus.c
@@ -103,7 +103,7 @@ static ssize_t do_id_store(struct device_driver *drv, const char *buf,
if (action == ID_ADD) {
dax_id = kzalloc(sizeof(*dax_id), GFP_KERNEL);
if (dax_id) {
- strncpy(dax_id->dev_name, buf, DAX_NAME_LEN);
+ strscpy(dax_id->dev_name, buf, DAX_NAME_LEN);
list_add(&dax_id->list, &dax_drv->ids);
} else
rc = -ENOMEM;

---
base-commit: 2dde18cd1d8fac735875f2e4987f11817cc0bc2c
change-id: 20230913-strncpy-drivers-dax-bus-c-f12e3153e44b

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