Re: [PATCH] cpuidle: dt: refactor deprecated strncpy

From: Kees Cook
Date: Thu Sep 14 2023 - 23:37:52 EST


On Wed, Sep 13, 2023 at 12:23:19AM +0000, Justin Stitt wrote:
> `strncpy` is deprecated for use on NUL-terminated destination strings [1].
>
> We should prefer more robust and less ambiguous string interfaces.
>
> A suitable replacement is `strscpy` [2] due to the fact that it guarantees
> NUL-termination on the destination buffer. With this, we can also drop
> the now unnecessary `CPUIDLE_(NAME|DESC)_LEN - 1` pieces.
>
> 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>

A very regular strncpy/strscpy conversion. :)

Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

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