[PATCH v1 net-next 2/7] e1000: replace deprecated strncpy with strscpy

From: Justin Stitt
Date: Tue Oct 10 2023 - 18:27:46 EST


`strncpy` is deprecated for use on NUL-terminated destination strings
[1] and as such we should prefer more robust and less ambiguous string
interfaces.

We can see that netdev->name is expected to be NUL-terminated based on
it's usage with format strings:
| pr_info("%s NIC Link is Down\n",
| netdev->name);

A suitable replacement is `strscpy` [2] due to the fact that it
guarantees NUL-termination on the destination buffer without
unnecessarily NUL-padding.

This is in line with other uses of strscpy on netdev->name:
$ rg "strscpy\(netdev\->name.*pci.*"

drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/netdev.c
7455: strscpy(netdev->name, pci_name(pdev), sizeof(netdev->name));

drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c
10839: strscpy(netdev->name, pci_name(pdev), sizeof(netdev->name));

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/net/ethernet/intel/e1000/e1000_main.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000/e1000_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000/e1000_main.c
index da6e303ad99b..1d1e93686af2 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000/e1000_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000/e1000_main.c
@@ -1014,7 +1014,7 @@ static int e1000_probe(struct pci_dev *pdev, const struct pci_device_id *ent)
netdev->watchdog_timeo = 5 * HZ;
netif_napi_add(netdev, &adapter->napi, e1000_clean);

- strncpy(netdev->name, pci_name(pdev), sizeof(netdev->name) - 1);
+ strscpy(netdev->name, pci_name(pdev), sizeof(netdev->name));

adapter->bd_number = cards_found;


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